OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

Brian E Carpenter brian at hursley.ibm.com
Sun May 18 17:53:21 CEST 2003


Eric Rosen wrote:
> 
> Brian> Secondly, this is a case where I think a simple first step may
> Brian> help quite a bit: simply merge Draft Standard and Standard
> Brian> into a single class, called Standard,  but with the criteria
> Brian> now used for Draft Standard.
> 
> Brian> Arguments: remove a process step that we basically never use,
> Brian> and make the step up from Proposed Standard worth the trouble.
> 
> Could you explain how this makes the step up from PS worth the trouble?

Because you know that the effort of documenting the interoperable
implementations will be rewarded by immediately getting to the final
status, rather than just getting to an intermediate plateau (and one with
a very confusing name, since to outsiders it sounds like a step backwards).

  Brian



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