Status?
Mark Crispin
mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU
Tue Mar 20 00:10:38 CET 2007
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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