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Re: [Gendispatch] Thoughts on draft-carpenter-gendispatch-draft-adoption

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 22 July 2020 14:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] Thoughts on draft-carpenter-gendispatch-draft-adoption
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Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
    > I think what you are saying (or what we should agree upon) is that different
    > WGs run their work differently. It would be a shame, IMHO, to mandate the
    > micromanagement of WGs to this level. IOW, sometimes the draft would get
    > implicitly adopted, sometimes the chairs would adopted it by fiat, sometimes
    > the WG would discuss it before adoption: leave it up to the chairs to decide
    > how to run each situation with different DTs in different WGs.

I agree with these goals.

    > Making it clear to the chairs and participants what the options are is
    > helpful to smooth and flexible operation - this is what we were trying to do
    > with RFC 7221. Making tight micro-rules constrains "doing the right thing".

I would be satisfied if the result was that I could tell via symbol, set of
colours, or reference to a subsection of a document, how a particular WG
behaves.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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