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Re: As Promised, an attempt at 2026bis

2006-09-29 00:56:41
But a two-step process with new words and threshold conditions
isn't "current practice"; it is a new idea with all of the
difficulties in getting consensus that Keith identified and all
of the risks of inadvertent change that Sam identified.  Trying
to do that as a "current practice, except we ignore some things
that are not and slip a few new ideas in" document seems to me
to be a recipe for disaster or at least for endless wandering in
the weeds.

What it requires is that people who want all their pet changes to go
into a draft to simply show some discipline and accept that not
everything will be fixed at once.

wtf? no, you can't make incremental changes and expect the result to work better than what we have now. in all probability it will work worse, much worse. the standards process has to balance various factors (e.g quality vs. timeliness). if you change one aspect at a time without changing the others you throw the thing out of balance. John's right - it's a recipe for disaster, and it's completely unacceptable as a means of moving forward.

Current practice is a ONE STEP process that is NOT documented.  Your and 
others' obstruction brings us
to a place where nothing moves forward and we are left in an ossified
state.

who gets to decide what is progress and what is obstruction?

Keith


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