Re: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists"

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Wed, 28 November 2012 16:32 UTC

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:32:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists"
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On 11/28/12 12:57 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> I'm increasingly seeing a "paradigm" where the review happens _before_
>> adoption as a WG draft.
> and one consequence is that the design gets done outside of the ietf
> process.
>

But this isn't necessarily a bad thing.  It's nice to have reasonably
well thought out ideas come in.

Eliot