On 25/02/2016 07:56, Barry Leiba wrote:
The main substantive changes are the fourth board appointment and this
paragraph:
If ISOC further modifies [ISOC-By-Laws] concerning the number of IAB
appointments to the ISOC Board or the timing thereof, the IAB will
make reasonable modifications to the processes embodied in this
document, without requiring further modification to this document.
Such changes will be announced via an IAB statement.
While this is certainly expedient, it's quite open-ended, entirely
left up to the judgment of the sitting IAB about what "reasonable
modifications" might mean. Certainly, with a by-law change that adds
a board appointment, most anyone would consider it reasonable to just
add that appointment with the appropriate periodicity, and it's
reasonable not to have to rev this document for that.
Yes, but I think this needs to be circumscribed. Wouldn't it be better
to require that BCP 77 is appropriately updated within 12 months in
such a case, i.e. trust the IAB to do the right thing but also commit
to updating the rules accordingly?
Brian
But 3677bis is now basically saying that BCP 77 is now obsolete, that
this version is the last one and is indeed documenting current
practice, and that future changes will be made by IAB decision and not
by revision of BCP 77.
Is that the intent? If so, maybe it would be better now to simply
make BCP 77 obsolete and shift the whole thing into an IAB statement
at this point.
Barry