Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Sat, 20 July 2019 13:00 UTC

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From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:59:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)
To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:51 AM Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> wrote:
> I believe your statement of intent.  But I think it's fair to realize
> that there is already tremendous pressure to deploy implementations
> before they've been formally approved, and there's a danger that any
> kind of distinguished "mark" will have the (unintended) effect of
> promoting deployment of the marked version of a protocol.

regardless of 'published or not' folk will always push for the early
implementation of FOO before it has been 'ratified'.
it's pretty clear that this happens, and that nothing about this
discussion is going to change that.