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RE: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 14:42:20
How about having a running list (or registry) of IETF RFCs that have become the 
"de-facto" standards?  

Best regards,
Kathleen

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Carsten Bormann
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:33 PM
To: Michael Richardson
Cc: Sam Hartman; IETF list
Subject: Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

On May 1, 2013, at 20:11, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca> 
wrote:

It's what PS *ought* to have been, and what "RFC"s were prior to
1990 or so.

One problem is certainly the cognitive barrier imposed by the RFC process.
-- RFCs never change, so you want to get them right;
-- there is a two-month editorial process in front of the publication;
etc. etc.

So I don't think changing the process leading up to the RFCs is really going to 
change that much.

Having a label for a "baked" I-D, maybe some publicly visible directory for 
them, but retaining the I-D's fast change capability for editorial changes (and 
fixes that turn out to be necessary), would work better.

I also like what Sam said: Try this out first as an informal addendum to what 
we have and what works.

Grüße, Carsten