Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Hi Rene,

On 14/12/2014 22:27, Rene Struik wrote:
> Dear Alexey:
>
> I am unhappy with this draft.
A one sentence summary of why you think it should not be accepted as a 
RG document (as opposed to being accepted and then fixed up later) would 
be appreciated.
> Besides, I do not understand at all why the CFRG co-Chairs choose to 
> take this step (call for adoption of this draft, at this specific 
> moment in time) right now. What triggered this? This seems to be a 
> random move, at a random moment in time.
Chairs have a backlog of non EC related stuff to go through. While some 
of it has to be dealt with serially, other things can progress in 
parallel. I was already on record saying that Watson's earlier request 
to accept the document was recorded 
(https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg05250.html) and I 
wanted to deal with it. Maybe timing of my email was not perfect because 
of the ongoing EC discussion, but timing is *never* right in CFRG...

Best Regards,
Alexey
> I think it would be good if the CFRG leadership could explain its 
> thinking.
>
> Best regards, Rene
>
>
>     Charter
>
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>
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>
>
>
> Rene
>
>
> On 12/14/2014 11:41 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This message starts 3 weeks adoption call for draft-ladd-spake2. 
>> Please reply to this message or directly to CFRG chairs, stating one 
>> of the following
>>
>> 1) that you are happy to adopt the draft as a starting point
>> 2) that you are not happy to adopt this draft
>> or
>> 3) that you think the document needs more work before the RG should 
>> consider adopting it
>>
>> While detailed document reviews are generally welcome, this not a 
>> call to provide detailed comments on the document.
>>
>> Alexey,
>> On bahalf of CFRG chairs.
>>