Re: Issues around sponsoring individual documents

Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@commerce.net> Fri, 07 September 2007 20:00 UTC

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From: Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@commerce.net>
Subject: Re: Issues around sponsoring individual documents
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:00:51 -0700
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:32 AM, James M Snell wrote:

> Having written several IS drafts, one of which reached Proposed  
> Standard
> status and another Experimental RFC, and another that I believe might
> have helped to motivate this particular note from you,...


Yes, but this wasn't the only one!  Efforts by Dave Crocker and John  
Klensin are also prompting this line of questioning.  But Paul's  
request added to yours to publish the Atom feature advertisement spec  
did prompt finishing the email to send it.

I asked Paul if he'd be document shepherd for that spec, by the way,  
to do the work of determining what consensus was for which features  
to include, to write the doc shepherd's overview & help the process  
along.  I'm not sure he thought that was inappropriate or just not  
something he had the time to do, but he declined.

thanks,
Lisa