Re: [apps-discuss] Proposal for a Finance Area Mailing List

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 3/9/2012 6:17 AM, John Levine wrote:
>>> �Anyone likely to implement it? �The IETF has a well known
>>> preference for running code.
>>
>> (One might wonder if such conflicts with the 'come with a problem
>> rather than a solution' philosophy of the BOFs / mailing list
>> proposals @ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5434#page-2 ?  Then again,
>> one might try to focus on avoiding bureaucratic discussion
>> entirely...)
>
> I'll take that as "no".


expecting code to exist even before pre-standards work has been discussed seems 
a tad excessive.

on the other hand, having a clear problem statement and clear statement of 
desired output -- or in the alternative, questions intended to produce those 
clear statements -- is more typical for pre-standards discussion lists.

absent those, there is no substantive anchor for the discussions.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net