Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-09-02 Thread Bernard Aboba
[BA] My comment is that having guidelines for this could help make the advancement process more predictable. Thank you for working on this. Jari Arkko said: During the discussion of the two maturity levels change, a question was brought up about DISCUSSes appropriate for documents that

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:51 -0700 Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: What's also not fair game is to raise the bar - to expect the document at DS to meet more stringent criteria than it was required to meet at the time of PS approval. Hmmm, the demonstrated interoperability

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Jari Arkko
Keith, thank you for the feedback. Some responses inline: 1. Fix the broken IESG voting system before you try to establish more decision criteria. I do agree with your general thinking here. The way that you describe the different positions is what I personally try to achieve in my IESG

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Eric Burger
Would having professional editors make a difference here? On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:31 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:51 -0700 Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: What's also not fair game is to raise the bar - to expect the document at DS to meet more stringent

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Jari Arkko
Eric, John, Would having professional editors make a difference here? I know it is controversial, but there is at least one other area in which we should be raising the bar for DS/IS by dropping the bar for Proposed. If we really want to get PS specs out quickly while the percentage of

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:31 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:51 -0700 Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: What's also not fair game is to raise the bar - to expect the document at DS to meet more stringent criteria than it was required to meet at the time of PS

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Keith, thank you for the feedback. Some responses inline: 1. Fix the broken IESG voting system before you try to establish more decision criteria. I do agree with your general thinking here. The way that you describe the different

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Eric, John, Would having professional editors make a difference here? I know it is controversial, but there is at least one other area in which we should be raising the bar for DS/IS by dropping the bar for Proposed. If we really want to

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:34 +0300 Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: Eric, John, Would having professional editors make a difference here? I know it is controversial, but there is at least one other ... I think the existing Discuss criteria already says very clearly that

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 08:02 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: I think the existing Discuss criteria already says very clearly that editorial comments cannot be blocking DISCUSSes. So nobody has the job of making sure that the documents are well-written in clear

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John Leslie
Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: The biggest problem with the current voting system (other than misleading labels, which do cause real problems of their own) is the presumption that the document should go forward no matter how few IESG members read the document. Keith makes

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:42 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We ought to, IMO, be permitting publication of PS documents at the second level as long as there are no _obvious_ ambiguities that cannot be figured out (the same way) by people of good will acting in good faith and with help from WG lists

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Jari, During the discussion of the two maturity levels change, a question was brought up about DISCUSSes appropriate for documents that advance on the standards track. We discussed this in the IESG and I drafted some suggested guidelines. Feedback on these suggestions would be welcome.

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
thanks Spencer for pointing this part out. On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: IESG reviews should be considered as a review of last resort. Most documents reviewed by the IESG are produced and reviewed in the context of IETF working groups. In those cases, the IESG

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:08 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:42 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We ought to, IMO, be permitting publication of PS documents at the second level as long as there are no _obvious_ ambiguities that cannot be

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We ought to, IMO, be permitting publication of PS documents at the second level as long as there are no _obvious_ ambiguities that cannot be figured out (the same way) by people of good will acting in good faith and with help from WG lists

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Keith, Yes, to what you are saying, but I was pointing out that the text we're discussing isn't intended to apply to moving what a working group has consensus for onto the standards track, it's intended to apply to what the *IETF* already has consensus for, that's already on the standards

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:47 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: ... IMO, there are two possibilities here. At this point, sadly, both involve a chicken-and-egg problem. Such is life. (1) We proceed as if Proposed Standards are what 2026 (and the earlier culture)

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote: we either ought to be identifying real problems and fixing them or just staying with what we have until we have the knowledge and will needed to make real changes. That would certainly be my preference. Keith

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
There's something inherently wrong with trying to establish criteria for voting DISCUSS. My understanding was always that DISCUSS was supposed to be an indication that, at a minimum, the AD needs to understand the situation better before casting a yea or nay vote. The resolution of a

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote: My understanding was always that DISCUSS was supposed to be an indication that, at a minimum, the AD needs to understand the situation better before casting a yea or nay vote. The resolution of a DISCUSS might end up being a yes vote, a no

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Fred Baker wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote: My understanding was always that DISCUSS was supposed to be an indication that, at a minimum, the AD needs to understand the situation better before casting a yea or nay vote. The resolution

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-31 09:51, Fred Baker wrote: ... If the AD raised a valid issue, the ball is in the author/wg's court to address it. They can game this rule by not responding until after 45 days. Not if the draft has been updated and the AD doesn't either cancel the DISCUSS within a reasonable

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-31 08:18, Jari Arkko wrote: ... Here are the suggested guidelines for documents that advance to IS: http://www.arkko.com/ietf/iesg/discuss-criteria-advancing.txt Comments appreciated. To answer Jari's original request: +1 to these new guidelines. Not worth nit-picking until we