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Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 22:12 UTC

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On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:

> The document doesn't actually say out loud there that the requirements for Proposed Standard have been considerably increased by IESG practice over the years, nor does it charge subsequent IESGs to return to a faithful reading of the actual text. 

Is IESG really misreading "no known technical omissions with respect to the requirements placed on it"?   

If the bar has been raised since the publication of 2026, might this actually be reasonable given that the Internet is much larger, more diverse, and more hostile than it used to be?

Keith

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