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Re: IESG response and questions to the normative reference experiment (draft-klensin-norm-ref-01.txt)

2006-09-05 07:36:07
Brian Carpenter wrote:
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So, in conclusion, the IESG seeks comments on whether there is
community interest in turning the first part of this experiment into a
BCP.  The IESG also seeks comments from interested document editors
and working group chairs pointing to instances where the second part
of the experiment would be useful.  In particular, please let the IESG
know about upcoming work where being able to reference approved
Internet Drafts from RFCs would be useful; please explain how it would
be useful.  Unless the IESG finds significant cases where the second
part of this experiment will be useful, the IESG plans to decline to
run that part of the experiment.
  
In general I am not in favor of 3933 experiments regarding permanent
document series, and so I believe the IESG is right to suggest that a
BCP is appropriate in this case.  While I am in favor of moving ahead
with a BCP to remove the restriction on normative references, I believe
this really to be a half measure.  There are many more reasons why
documents do not progress through the standards track, such as having to
matrix out each feature.  Very few people want to do that work.  And so
I ask that as we move forward with the BCP you propose above, once
approved we monitor its progress to see if *anything* changes.  If after
18 months we see no changes I would ask for further action.

Eliot

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