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Re: [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-thomson-gendispatch-rfc-derivatives-00.txt

Joel Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Thu, 28 September 2023 16:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-thomson-gendispatch-rfc-derivatives-00.txt
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Trimmed to one point.  Below.

Joel

On 9/28/2023 12:07 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> I do not think it is a desirable state of affairs for there to be 
> multiple competing
> versions of a spec. However, it is also not good to have a situation 
> where the
> SDO that originally authored the spec is, for whatever reason, not 
> meaningfully
> maintaining it, or the community has gone elsewhere. In that case, I 
> do think it
> is good if that other venue can take over the spec. Does that help clarify
> my view (which may not be the view of my co-authors)?
>
> -Ekr

History suggests that we have already solved this problem when there is 
a clear resolution.  For example, we turned over maintenance of a number 
of Ethernet MIBs to IEEE.  It seems that if the community has decided we 
are not interested in a spec, and there is a clear and sensible place 
willing to maintain it, we work things out.  (Such transfer is now 
easier; ew didn't have clear rights when we did this in the past.) On 
the other hand, deciding we didn't want to maintain a spec, and throwing 
it open so anyone could make competing derivations would seem a 
dereliction of our responsibility as much as just ignoring the document.

If there is a systemic problem that needs to be addressed, the draft 
should identify the problem and propose a remedy that address the problem.

Yours,

Joel

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