IETF mission (RE: pausable explanation for the Document Series)

[Charles E. Perkins]

Hello John,

I also wholeheartedly support the inclusion of an applicability
statement whenever it makes sense.  However, I also suggest that
the protocol SHOULD (within engineering discretion) not intentionally
restrict its applcability to the situations delineated in the
applicability statement.

I would restate Postel's maxim:

Be conservative in the claimed applicability, but generous
in the potential applicability.

Regards,
Charlie P.



john.loughney at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > perhaps more generally - there isn't such an obvious pattern to them, either
> > for what they look like or how they are created, so they are mostly off
> > people's radar.
> 
> As a contributor to one:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3257.txt
> 
> I don't think that these are really very mysterious beasts.
> 
> I suggest that ADs should encourage these documents in WGs their charter.
> 
> John