Fred Baker wrote:
From my perspective, the best approach involves keeping the general
case simple. The documents that have been transferred outside the IETF
in the past five years is a single digit number, a tenth of a percent of
all RFCs if not a smaller fraction. From my perspective, the simplest
solution to the transfer issue is to ask the people relevant to a
document for which transfer has been suggested whether they have an
issue with transferring it, rather than asking every document author his
or her opinion on the vast majority of documents, which will never be
transferred.
+1 for simplicity, pragmatics, stability, narrowness of impact, and probably
"legality".
A number of the comments, so far, appear to hinge on a rather basic cost/benefit
model that is clearly quite different from what the proposal is based. I
suspect that difference comes from a different sense of the problem, per John
Klensin's posting.
My reference to "legality" is based on a view of the proposal which sees it as
having individual submitters essentially say "I am required to get permission
and I have not gotten it". That's an admission of guilt, which seems like a
very bad thing to admit and formally document, particularly for an issue
involving the law. And if you don't think that's what the proposal calls for,
please explain, because I don't think my interpretation is all that creative.
I am also struck by the proposal's noting:
This situation has halted the progression of some Internet-Drafts and
interrupted the publication of some RFCs.
This means that we have a crisis which is stopping productive work, yet the
crisis appears to be caused by a faulty new requirement, rather than by the
situation that the document seeks to correct. In other words, remove the new
requirement and we no longer have a crisis. We have an issue to pursue -- the
same one that prompted the new requirement -- but no crisis.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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