On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 1:17 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't the problem statement explore whether there is a plausible > tractable solution before it moves on to protocol work? That is, if there > isn't a tractable solution the wg should go into hibernation again. I'm > pretty sure that I brought this quite a while ago. Of if not the problem > statement, afterward just evaluating for a go-no go decision before > starting any work. > A working group is implicitly allowed to admit defeat if it decides it can't solve the problem it thought it was supposed to solve. DBOUND comes to mind; it deadlocked on whether the problem was tractable, or even well enough understood, to advance a consensus protocol solution, and closed without producing anything. I don't think the charter has to say that expressly. It's part of the process. The charter stipulates an ordering, and I think that's sufficient. -MSK
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