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Re: My two cents on draft-leiba-rfc2119-update

2016-08-10 13:04:07
On 8/10/16 9:33 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
Repeat discussions waste time.   

Not much, I don't think.  I certainly cannot think of
an instance where a document has been anything other than
trivially delayed by a discussion about normative language.
And of course there are serious discussions about whether
something should be mandatory or recommended, and this
document really doesn't help those at all.

I suppose my broader point is that less-than-useful process
documents waste time, as well, and they clog up the
document stream.  I'm afraid I tend to view documents like
this as contributing to our gradual but steady metamorphosis
into a conventional, process-bound standards body.

Our review process is not very
robust--a lot of things slip through the cracks.   

Indeed they do, but typically not 2119 mistakes.  I have
seen an awful lot of secdir and opsdir reviews go through
that don't have any useful security or operational review
but which have caught tons of nits.

Melinda


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