OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

[Brian E Carpenter]

Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 May 2003, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > (1) agree that moving from PS to full Standard is more
> > likely interesting than moving from PS to Draft Standard,
> 
> Moving from PS to Draft typically seems to include a lot of tuning of the
> spec, including removal of features and adding a few new ones (to
> replace/enhance/augment the ones killed for instance), or clarifying ones
> (in such a manner that all the old implementation are not compliant).
> 
> If we went from PS to Full, the documents certainly would have to recycled
> at the PS stage far, far longer to ensure there are no glitches left. 

Disagree. Good enough is good enough. If you find glitches later, and
anybody cares, recycle at Standard. I do *not* suggest we should raise
the bar for promotion from Proposed Standard by one millimetre. I am
proposing that we simply abolish and forget the second bar.

   Brian