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

[Aaron Falk]

john.loughney at nokia.com wrote:
> 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

John-

It may just be that it takes time to write good documents, esp. ones
that are expected to have long shelf life.

--aaron