Status?

[Mark Crispin]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> For someone other than the proposer to go piecing together a registration
>> form from a dozen pieces of information in as many email messages spread
>> over a period of months is an error-prone process, and best avoided.
> Is that a procedure that should be specified in 4646bis ?

This seems to be something that was covered in RFC -infinity, "Common 
Sense Procedures For Life" which include "produce a coherant summary of 
the outcome of a discussion for the benefit of whichever poor guy or gal 
is expected to implement it."

I agree that this common sense is often quite lacking.  I just 
(successfully) fought that very battle in another context at work.  In 
that case, I was handed a set of forwarded emails and told "go do what 
they agreed."  I sent it right back and told them to give me a proper 
specification.

-- Mark --

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