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Re: I-D Action: draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-09.txt

2014-11-10 14:11:08
Brian, that's a good point.  I changed that text to address Paul
Kyzivat's comments, and I may have been too strong in that.  I could:

1. Change it to "It may have been a mistake".

2. Remove that last sentence entirely.

3. Replace the sentence with something else that I'm happy to have you suggest.

What do you think?

Barry

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi,

This paragraph has been considerably changed:

   In particular, working groups will sometimes write in policies such
   as Standards Action when they develop documents.  Later, someone will
   come to the working group (or to the relevant community, if the
   working group has since closed) with a simple request to register a
   new item, and will be met with a feeling that it's not worth doing a
   Standards-Track RFC for something so trivial.  In such cases, it was
   a mistake for the working group to have set the bar that high.

I object strongly to the last sentence. The fact that a person feels
it isn't worth the trouble to develop a standards-track document for
their new idea does not imply that the WG was wrong. It may equally
be true that the "simple request" is not simple at all in its
consequences, and absolutely does require standards action, and the WG
made no mistake whatever. Please see RFC 6709 for a full discussion.

   Brian