Re: discussion style and respect

hallam@gmail.com Sun, 14 June 2015 00:10 UTC

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I think that requirements, use cases, one top test reports etc should be published as NWC

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They would go to WG last call but NOT ietf or Iesg

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> On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:00 PM, jmh.direct <jmh.direct@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> 
> If the WG has fallen into the trap of wanting to publish some the use cases as RFCs, then....
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: hallam@gmail.com 
> Date: 06/13/2015 6:59 PM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> 
> Cc: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>, ietf@ietf.org 
> Subject: Re: discussion style and respect 
> 
> You should never spend time discussing whether to accept use cases. 
> 
> Use cases should only be prioritized. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Jun 13, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I find myself in the middle on this.
> > Spending a lot of time on use case documents, and deciding which use case documents you will adopt (the answer usually being all) is not productive.
> > But not having agreement on the problem, or conversely having agreement on the solution whatever the problem really is, also produces veyr bad results.
> > 
> > We have, many times, managed to thread our way in between these various extremes.  From what I have seen, that usually works better.  (It also helps if there are actually enouhg people willing to do the work.)
> > 
> > Yours,
> > Joel
> > 
> >> On 6/13/15 5:36 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> >>> On 6/13/15 12:22 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >>>> On 14/06/2015 01:19, John C Klensin wrote:
> >>>> ...   However, if a WG is
> >>>> started with a "solution" and a group of people behind it, there
> >>>> are some bad effects:
> >>> Yes, and this is certainly a very real situation. I've personally
> >>> experienced it in the past, and am currently experiencing it
> >>> (without belligerence, fortunately).
> >> 
> >> I'm actually pretty ambivalent about this one.  I'd much
> >> rather see things coming in that are relatively well-baked
> >> than see proposals that are just problem descriptions.
> >> It seems to me to be a more productive use of energy to
> >> negotiate engineering differences than it is go try to
> >> figure out whether or not a given problem statement reflects
> >> an actual problem that somebody is really experiencing, or
> >> if there's the ability to come up with a useful solution.
> >> Yes, it can be heated and horrible (and I actually left the
> >> IETF for several years in part because of my experience
> >> along these lines in one particular working group), but
> >> I think we're better off figuring out how to deal with
> >> these situations than we are going with the problem statement/
> >> use case/gap analysis model, which is really beginning to
> >> annoy me as unproductive, slow, and unmoored to much that's
> >> useful.
> >> 
> >> Melinda
> >> 
> >> 
> >