[Iasa20] WGs and scope restrictions (was: Re: Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT))

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Tue, 09 July 2019 14:49 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
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Subject: [Iasa20] WGs and scope restrictions (was: Re: Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT))
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(changing the subject line in case this starts a branch thread
-- although I hope it won't)

--On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 14:00 +0000 "Livingood, Jason"
<Jason_Livingood@comcast.com> wrote:

> On 7/8/19, 8:39 PM, "John C Klensin" <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
>>    If there is a lesson from this for the future, it is that
>>    there
>     are distinct downsides to telling a WG that it is expected
> to     produce documents that replace older ones but are not
> allowed to     fix known errors or other difficulties with
> those earlier ones.
> 
> +1
> This is indeed a good lesson-learned. It seemed to be the only
> way to get the WG approved at the time, but in retrospect I
> hope current & future leaders that approve WGs will bear this
> in mind. 

I think that, in planning for the future, it is scope statements
to the effect of "nothing other than fixing X" that are the
problem.   Ones that focus a WG on a particular topic may still
be reasonable if they allow for (and, IMO) preferably encourage)
fixing known bugs and making obvious clarifications in documents
being revised.  In retrospect, if there was an error this time,
it was in treating excluding everything not directly required by
the IASA2 changes as the only alternative to opening up large
cans of worms.  

IMO, we ought to have been able to accommodate the changes Barry
proposed and others or similar nature, including several that
were proposed while the IASA2 documents were under development.
In the past, we've managed to accommodate such changes by a
liberal and flexible interpretation of WG charters, but that was
obviously unworkable in this case.   My objection to doing so
now is only because it seems unreasonable to me to exclude the
possibility of a type of change in the WG that develops a
document only to have IESG members make changes very similar
changes to those that were blocked in the WG and make them after
Last Call closes. 

Adam, I don't know what else, if anything, you intend to do with
your bis-documents I-D, but the above seems to me to be quite
relevant to it.

best,
   john