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RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 22:16:55
John:

Peter, just to clarify... In my opinion (which isn't necessarily
worth much)

(I sincerely doubt that's the case.)


, the procedures that were followed were perfectly
reasonable.   Anyone can form a design team and put a document
together, and there are no rules that bar such a design team
from using and building on a mailing list set up for something
else.  That may or may not be wise, but it is certainly
permitted.  The only place this runs into a problem is if
someone presumes that a document developed in the way this one
was developed is equivalent to a WG product, or that it is
entitled to the presumptions of relevancy and correctness that
go with a WG product.

I can't speak for the authors. I was not familiar with those
distinctions when the process began, and I suspect that is true of
others on the IETF-languages list who contributed. In my mind we were
following a precident that implied not only a permitted procedure but an
entirely appropriate one. I think all of us now understand, at least in
part, that some distinctions exist that may have practical implications
on how something is received by the IETF community and processed by the
IESG.


From that point of view, it is nothing
more or less than an individual submission (or the output of a
self-defined design team) and the comments Dave and I have been
making apply.

I don't think I have questioned the applicability of your comments in
this regard at any point.



Peter Constable

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