At 20:53 04/05/2005, Ted Hardie wrote:
As an example: if a document out of one
working group was asked to create a registry for something, should a
document from a different working group using the same underlying
technology also create a registry?
This question is currently important to me too.
Please IETF/IANA experienced people comment?
It's my personal believe that the IETF standards form a body of
work, rather than just being individual specifications, and that some
level of effort should be put in to make sure that the individual
documents fit into the body. We've done some of that through
mechanisms like the RFC 2119 language and the IANA considerations
guide, so I think there is some community consensus that this
is useful.
Yes.
Working out where the consistency bar should be set is sometimes easy,
as documents fit comfortably within our community's shared sense of
the range. When it is hard, though, the effort and time it takes to get
things agreed is enormous, and the ill-mannered can play a war of attrition
to get their way.
What is difficult is to understand who is the ill-mannered in such cases.
Who s protecting the future consistency, who is endagering it? Experience
shows that people wanting to get their way make believe they follow the
rules: they want to trap the IESG.
To get this back to the form of a question: what is the right value of
consistent for the statement: "The IETF should produce a consistent
set of specifications?" Same language, format, and no more? Anything
already documented in an RFC like 2219? Same set of core assumptions/built
from the same tools? Something less? Something more? Something along
a different axis entirely?
RFC 1958 provides good guideline to this. The rule is scalability. In the
line of the IETFiquette I suggested, I suggest that when a WG says "what
people will do with my deliverable is their problem, not ours" the
deliverable will probably not be consistent with the rest of the specs and
should be disregarded.
But there may be exceptions.
jfc
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