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Re: Discussions in IETF WGs

SM <sm@resistor.net> Mon, 11 June 2012 17:04 UTC

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:54:27 -0700
To: Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@gmail.com>
From: SM <sm@resistor.net>
Subject: Re: Discussions in IETF WGs
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Hi Abdussalam,
At 03:12 09-06-2012, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
>For example, in one of the WG discussion on list, two members of WG
>have referenced a history-discussion and informed me to read them
>regarding some subject, I did do that but was *lost in translation*. I
>now think that the memebrs' advise was to a wrong direction. We SHOULD
>NOT refer in our current discussions to any other
>history-subjected-discussions (thoes discussion had no approve by WG
>consensus nor IESG review) in any WGs.  Also referring to old
>discussions in the list result to waste time and MAY make current
>arguments long (i.e. long means more than 5 working days), or even
>makes the current argument unproductive.Old-discussions MAY be
>misleading/incorrect/invalid, even if they are helpful to gain some
>knowledge.

If someone is not aware of the old discussions about an issue it can 
be a problem.  The issue may have to be discussed again when there 
isn't any new input available.

Is the above related to discussions in the MANET WG?

Regards,
-sm

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