Re: [hrpc] draft-irtf-hrpc-political - current determination regarding RG last call.

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 15 October 2019 16:18 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:17:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: [hrpc] draft-irtf-hrpc-political - current determination regarding RG last call.
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:11 AM Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric
>
> > I would want there to be some level of consensus that the we had
> confidence in the statements in the document (just as I would want if I
> were to be on the PC of a conference which was considering this as a
> submission).
>
>
> Yes.  My point is simply that it is possible for two or more papers to be
> well written that rely on different data sets or different assumptions to
> derive different analysis and reach differing conclusions, and so long as I
> am not being asked to endorse one over the other, and so long as I have
> learned something interesting, then I would want the work to be published.
>

Yes, I agree with this. However, I do not think that this document as
currently written is anywhere near strong enough to serve that purpose.

-Ekr


> Eliot
>