OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

Ralph Droms rdroms at cisco.com
Fri May 16 10:31:43 CEST 2003


I agree that this issue is a problem.

- Ralph


At 10:50 PM 5/15/2003 +0300, Jari Arkko wrote:
>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
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