Dave Crocker wrote:
>> IMO its in-between.
> 
> What does that mean?  What portions or aspects of it qualify as
> 'non-technical marketing'?

I assume its aimed at a less technical audience.

> 
> 
>> Yes. That's why I'd rather that we focus on the document, not on
>> external text. If you were proposing new text for the introduction
>> then it'd be right on the mark, as-is, I worry that it'll be
>> distracting.
> 
> I'll repeat:  You have a working group that has demonstrated a widely
> divergent understanding of what SSP is.  That tends to undermine claims
> of real working group consensus.
> 
> You ought to welcome an exercise that could facilitate convergence of
> basic points.

Sure. If you wanted to recast the text as an alternative to the
current introduction of the I-D, then I'd welcome the effort.

Right, now I don't think that working on two different descriptions
of the same thing on the same list is a good idea.

> 
>>> The second point should makes it useful for me to gather comments from
>>> this list, before I circulate a purportedly factual description of SSP
>>> to others.
>>
>> Fair enough to do that, after we have WG consensus. For now, its
>> a little premature.
> 
> You think that formulating a summary statement of facts, after a couple
> of years of effort and just before Last Call is somehow premature,
> particularly when the lack of working group consensus on core decisions
> seems pretty evident?

I think that writing such external text would be much more likely
to be useful (and lead to a more a accurate result) after we've
processed the issue in our tracker.

S.
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