Keith,
<http://mipassoc.org/spamops/request%20for%20BCP%20status.txt>
This status file claims that the document in question has had "Multiple
references to the document in the IRTF's ASRG and the retained ietf-
smtp mailing list." I took the trouble to search my archives of the
ietf-smtp mailing list, and found exactly four mentions of that
document title or ID.
Multiple: "Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual,
element, part, or other component; manifold."
Also, the statement carefully said "references" rather than discussion. So the
statement makes no more than a minimal, and correct, claim.
While the claim in the status file is true on its face (there really
were multiple "references" to the document) one should not infer that
the document has actually been discussed on the ietf-smtp list, because
indeed. one usually should not infer more than is said, particularly in a
formal document.
Frankly, it's hard to see this as other than an attempt at an "end run"
around the SMTP developer community.
Let's see: it gets announced multiple times on an smtp developer
community mailing list. That community chooses not to pursue the
matter.
Your criteria for "end run" appear to be rather liberal, if not silly.
You wouldn't be trying to delay things, so as to somehow force
discussion of your now-competing document, would you?
d/
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