On 9/8/21 6:19 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 16:44, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 8/31/21 9:41 AM, Jonas Schäfer wrote: > > > The term "Draft" for our non-Final but also non-Experimental > standards has > > been adopted from our "mother" organization, the Internet > Engineering Task > > Force. The IETF has since abandoned that term. > > In fact, the IETF moved from a three-stage track to a two-stage track: > > > As many of us noted in the discussion leading up to that, the IETF moved > from a three-stage to a four-stage by increasingly formalizing the > Internet-Draft stage and raising the bar for Proposed Standard, and then > RFC 6410 executed a "Left Shift" to remove the (now largely redundant) > Draft stage. > > The IETF still has a three stage track, it's just that the first stage > is Internet-Drafts, which amounts to our Experimental. > > A lot of this shift, looking back on it, was driven by the lack of > in-situ updates to documents once they'd hit RFC status, which doesn't > affect us.
That's all true. > It's also why I have resisted adding pre-XEP stages... And let's keep resisting. :-) Peter _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
