On 11/30/2012 3:29 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
There is no formal process that involves "adopting" anything.
If you mean that we haven't documented a/the formal process, you are
correct. If you mean that the IETF has not moved towards rather formal
steps for explicitly adopting working group drafts, I disagree.
...
Today, there is typically explicit text in the charter about adoption or
there is explicit wg approval.
Indeed: we always have the option of having the charter limit
management options.
Barry, I think you are trying to make a very different point from the
one I am trying to make.
I think you are trying to assert that there is flexibility while I am
trying to assert that there is common practice. These are not mutually
exclusive points.
My point about a formal process having emerged is that a chair/wg
wanting to adopt a document has a well-established set of common
practice. It's not well (or at all) documented, but it exists in how
working groups typically do things.
I was not trying to comment on the degree to which that process is
mandated. I acknowledge that fully documenting common practice, to make
it "official" formal process, must combine both lines of concern.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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