On 11/29/2011 05:47 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
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.
I believe Russ was reading the words ".... on what is believed to be the
best way to perform some operations ...".
FWIW, given that the IAB has chosen to not uphold the principle of
subsidiarity and let this thing be done at the lowest possible level in
the decision hierarchy, I hold with the people who argue that allocating
this /10 is less harmful than not allocating it.
"best" in this case being synonymous with "least bad", not synonymous
with "good".
Harald
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