OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

[Jari Arkko]

Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> 
> The process document current says:
> 
>> There is also a more fundamental issue with the IETF's engineering
>> practices.  Although our current standards track contains three
>> levels of maturity (Proposed Standard, Draft Standard and Full
>> Standard), we do not have sufficient differentiation regarding the
>> quality and completeness of documents required at each stage.  The
>> bar is set very high for publication at Proposed Standard, and very
>> few documents advance beyond this stage. [OPEN ISSUE: Do we have
>> IETF consensus that this is a problem?]

It is a problem.

--Jari