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Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-11-29 10:48:05

On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Russ Housley wrote:

+1


On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote:

to be pedantic - a BCP stands for the best way we know how to do something
it is not required that the process actually be in use before the BCP is 
adopted

as Mike O'Dell once said, if BCPs had to reflect what was actually being 
done we 
could never have a BCP defining good manners on the IETF mailing list

see RFC 2026 - it says
 The BCP subseries of the RFC series is designed to be a way to
 standardize practices and the results of community deliberations.  A
 BCP document is subject to the same basic set of procedures as
 standards track documents and thus is a vehicle by which the IETF
 community can define and ratify the community's best current thinking
 on a statement of principle or on what is believed to be the best way
 to perform some operations or IETF process function.

i.e, the IETF's "best current thinking" on the "best way" to do something - 
not
'describing the way something is done'

You stopped the excerpt from 2026 too soon on both ends; "the community's best 
current thinking on a statement of principle". Ron already said that the 
community didn't agree on a clear "best current thinking", and the document 
very clearly says that this is meant to be a new allocation of addresses, not 
"a statement of principle".

If the IESG wants to weasel around the actual words in RFC 2026, that's fine: 
this wouldn't be the first time. However, there is also an opportunity to be 
more honest and call it a Proposed Standard.

--Paul Hoffman

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