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Re: Last Call: <draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt> (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 11:14:05
On 09.05.2011 18:10, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
Hi Julian,

Julian Reschke wrote:

On 09.05.2011 16:34, Russ Housley wrote:

...
My person experience with advancing documents is that downrefs are a
significant hindrance. As you point out, procedures have been adopted
to permit downrefs, but they are not sufficient. We often see Last
Call repeated just to resolve a downref that was caught very late in
the process. These intoduce delay, and they almost never produce a
single comment from the community.
...

Maybe we should find out why we actually ever start a LC with
unexpected downrefs... I think we have at least two tools to check for
those.

Sometimes references get reclassified during IESG review and this causes
downrefs. I've certainly caused this several times.

Oh, "informative" -> "normative". Good point.

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