--On Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:01 PM +1300 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Scott and John, > > I don't see this as inconsistent with the current 2-stage > proposal, if the latter's omission of a requirement for > independent interoperable implementations for stage 2 is > corrected. I won't try to speak for Scott, but I agree. > I don't, however, believe that the problems are separable. > The bar for PS has crept up, IMHO, precisely because the bar > for DS/STD has appeared too high to be readily attainable. I think one can read the symptoms, and cause-effect relationships, in different ways. However, I think it is safe to say that -- * as the bar for PS creeps up, there is less energy, inclination, and motivation to move toward DS/STD * as the percentage of documents --out of those that represent specifications of protocols anyone cares about -- that are actually advanced to DS/STD goes down, the incentives to raise the bar for PS increase. In other words, regardless of what one believes about cause and effect, there is a positive feedback loop operating here. Collapsing STD onto DS is unlikely to affect that loop. There has been no evidence offered that such a collapse will increase the number of documents that advance to that level. Indeed, by _adding_ requirements to a combined DS/STD level, it is at least as likely to raise the perceived threshold for getting to DS/STD without significantly increasing the motivation to push documents into that level. On the other hand, reverting the definition of PS both makes that level faster and increases the motivation to move a document to DS/STD because that second level become the first one at which a reader can really expect a complete and comprehensive spec. That is why we used used the term "prerequisite". > So I see two ways forward that hang together: > > 1. draft-bradner-restore-proposed + > (draft-housley-two-maturity-levels + independent interoperable > implementations) > > 2. draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits-all-01 (i.e. simply > abolish the second and third stages, and make interoperability > reports optional) > I prefer #1. So do I. But we agree that, absent the commitment to interoperability testing as a critical part of the standards process -- the one thing we claimed for years was what made IETF work almost unique and almost uniquely successful among SDO-- there is little value in having a multiple-step process. regards, john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf