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Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 10:44:53

"Scott" == Scott O Bradner <sob(_at_)harvard(_dot_)edu> writes:
    >> The known problem is it takes well over four years to get anything
    >> published.

    Scott> ...

    >> What I *am* hoping is that with two, clearly defined maturity levels, we
    >> can go back to publishing Proposed Standards in about a year

    Scott> the only way that could happen is if the IESG were to change their 
ways a lot
    Scott> and permit less complete documents to be published as PS

so, from this point of view, two-maturity is a step backwards, because
it makes the new PS seem even more 'mature', and therefore higher
barrier to entry.   I don't have an answer for this.



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