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Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-19 07:18:53


Harald explains

  Answered requests for review and their responses are made public.
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why not make public all requests (i.e. remove "Answered" from the
last line)

because:
1) some requests are an embarassment to the sender, and the sender doesn't 
really want an answer

not sure that giving someone an additional way to embarrass themselves 
(in addition to the existing public mailing lists) is all that much of
a negative in the face of a general desire for openness

2) anything that's got a requirement to "do something" is a DoS vector, 
even if trivial - so I bent over backwards to prevent that.

you seem to be more bendable than I am :-) - I don't see that a public
archive for the request submission list would be all that big a deal to do

Harald (again) asks
I still don't understand how not setting expectations opens to a DoS attack 
- setting expectations would be such an opening.

Want to try to explain?

(again) for example, if the looser in a RFP process feels that they can 
get the decision overturned and a particular IASA does not have a strong
assumption that this is outside the scope the IASA could think it
could put the decision on hold (and block the delevery of a service
such as getting ready to provide networking at an IETF meeting) until
the review is done

but I repeate - I can live with the text as Harald proposes it

Scott

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