working group commitment

[Brian E Carpenter]

James Kempf wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> >       - a reasonable likelihood of there being groups willing to
> >         *implement* it, and
> >
> 
> Another problem here is that many companies no longer are willing to admit that
> they are implementing something until it has become an RFC (and sometimes not
> even then). A working group chair that asks whether anybody is willing to
> implement something is often chastised for trying to get companies to reveal
> proprietary product plans. So it has become harder to assess whether there is
> any reasonable likelihood that something will be implemented.

Yes, I went through this when trying to assess if the diffserv PIB should
go on standards track (it ended up Informational). To get any kind of answer,
I promised to anonymize responses before passing them on to the WG list,
and we did get a number of responses on that basis.

  Brian