[Gendispatch] Re: [procon] dispatching draft-carpenter-rfc7221bis

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 26. Mar 2025, at 12:31, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Indeed: this is why my method of adopting documents is to say
> something like, "From the discussion so far it looks like we have
> consensus to use this document as a starting point for further
> development.  If anyone objects to adopting this as our starting
> point, please say so, and explain why, by <date>."
> 
> There's no voting there, just a call for issues to be considered.
> There are almost always none once we get to that point.

I was going to write the same, but Barry beat me to it.

(Usually, the “discussion so far” would be specified a bit more, including mailing list threads as well as one or two meetings where the draft was discussed and the three questions “who has read”, “who would provide reviews”, “who would implement” were asked.)

If the chairs cannot really judge the support from the group from a document’s previous discussion, the document isn’t ready for a WG adoption call.
(And that, of course includes obtaining some judgement of interest among implementers and deployers.)

Grüße, Carsten