Yeah, I got wrapped around this on the WGchairs list, too. Thanks, Jeff, for
schooling me.
The problem is that "other groups" really is open-ended, but we don't mean
"other groups somewhere in the inhabited galaxy, that produce working drafts
using the same format", we mean "other groups like IAB that are closely
related to the IETF, but are not the IETF, and who ALSO use the same
Internet-Drafts format, submission process and repository". Is there a
shorthand for this, or do we have to stay vague to the point of
meaninglessness?
Thanks,
Spencer
The idea is generally acceptable to me but:
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute
working documents as Internet-Drafts.
While we're at it, these two sentences are contradictory.
"Internet-Drafts are a specific thing" but "some Internet-Drafts may be
something else". Since you have (reasonably) eliminated reference to
areas and working groups, how about modifying this to say
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) distributes its working
documents as Internet-Drafts. Note that other groups may also
distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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