On 12/2/2015 11:54 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: > On 12/2/2015 8:43 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >> On 02/12/15 16:32, Derek J. Balling wrote: >>> Why isn't this as simple as chartering the WG to go off and: >>> >>> 1.) Document the answers to questions 2 and 3 above, with data >>> 2.) If they so choose after doing #1, propose remedies or changes to the >>> existing methodologies consistent with the data they found above >> (With no hats) That seems eminently sensible to me. I'm sure >> the specific text to describe the questions would need a bit >> of work, but that oughtn't be too hard. > > 1. That's an IRTF type of task, not an IETF type of task. > > 2. As sensible as the task might seem, the IETF pretty much never > requires documentation about expected efficacy. That makes imposition > of such a requirement, here, discriminatory. > > The original approach to chartering working groups was rather simpler: > > 1. Is there clear indication that 'the community' wants to do this, > by virtue of there being folk who want spend time on wg development and > they or other folk making noises about interest in implementing and > developing it? > > 2. Is there a clear understanding of potential /danger/ from doing this? > > These days, we mostly stop at the first half of Question 1. But we have > pretty much always left the question of 'efficacy' to the market. > It seems to me that #1 is covered by virtue of the request existing in the first place.
I would argue that #2 will be covered in whatever work-product the WG comes up with (just as any other RFC would have to document negative-impacts, lack of backward compatibility, etc.). D -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
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