Time required to write down "wisdom" (Re: "Adult supervision")

[Bound, Jim]

If the IESG is flying around in Black Helicopters I suggest they take me
for a ride to map out the new IPv6 USA network we are trying to build
and use an IPv6 handheld from Nokia to map the coordinates :--) OK up to
late and I have to go outside in my back yard to feed this guy I tied up
with rope to the pigs as my german shepherd caught him trying to break
into my house :---)
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john.loughney at nokia.com [mailto:john.loughney at nokia.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:47 PM
> To: harald at alvestrand.no; problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: RE: Time required to write down "wisdom" (Re: "Adult 
> supervision")
> 
> 
> Hi Harald,
> 
> > for a worked example of something that everything we've 
> said here says
> > "should have been published sooner", consider 
> draft-iab-sec-cons, on how to 
> > write security considerations.
> > 
> > the history of that document, which started life as an 
> emailed note in
> > 1997, is probably instructive when considering the bars to timely 
> > publication.
> 
> This sounds strangely like the experience of getting an RFC published 
> by a WG.  It seems that the IAB faces many of the same 
> troubles that WGs face in moving a document to RFC.  
> 
> It seems that the 'process' has some how gotten twisted to 
> disable the quick publication of important documents.  Maybe 
> WGs have been spending too much time trying to find creative 
> ways to excede their charters & destroy the Internet; and the 
> IESG spends too much time flying around in black helicopters.
> 
> I think that we, as an organization, do need to do better.
> 
> John
>