--On Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:15 -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com> wrote:
John,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:01:26AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
Interestingly, a few mechanisms for handling that sort of
narrative and organizing information were extensively
discussed several years ago.
Thanks for this. Do you know whether any of this got as far
as being written in an I-D, or was it just a discussion? I'll
go trolling for expired I-Ds if I know they might be out there.
:-( It was a whole WG, about four or five years ago, with many
drafts and a good deal of discussion both within the WG and on
the IETF list. Search on "newtrk" generally and for
draft-ietf-newtrk-isd-repurposing for perhaps the best-developed
proposal that went in the "narrative and normative information"
rather than the "cataloging" one. Disclaimer: I was an author
of that spec and have some biases about it and how it was
processed.
Another idea that's been floating around has simply been to
put up a wiki to support all of this, and do it all as a kind
of non-normative support function. What worries me about that
is the (IMO strong) chance that such a wiki would be badly
maintained, but would gain currency because of its
convenience.
yes.
But maybe that doesn't matter too much: if we
can't be bothered to maintain such a resource, then either
making our stuff easy to use isn't important to us, or we don't
actually care about conformance as much as we say we do, or
both.
While that ("both") is close to my conclusion from the newtrk
meltdown, I assume others disagree.
...
john
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