Re: Running code, take 2

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Fri, 14 December 2012 01:17 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Subject: Re: Running code, take 2
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--On Thursday, December 13, 2012 16:11 -0800 Randy Bush
<randy@psg.com> wrote:

>> My concern remains that we not create new formal procedures
>> to do (or even experiment with) things that can be done under
>> existing rules either for the whole IETF or on an area by
>> area or even document by document basis
> 
> <aol>
> 
> my apologies.  i did not mean that formal implementation
> reports should be filed for everything, or even everything
> that wants to be on a fast track, if there is a fast track.
> 
> i meant merely to illustrate that we already have flavors for
> filing implementation reports.  and i was asking if/how
> melinda thought the format of reporting might affect the speed
> and direction of the track.

I actually understood that.  Sorry for not being clear.  My
concern about creating new procedures, of even a formal
experiment, is almost orthogonal to your comments and
illustration, for which I'm grateful and in complete agreement.

    john