Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists")

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 11/30/2012 3:29 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>> There is no formal process that involves "adopting" anything.
>>
>> If you mean that we haven't documented a/the formal process, you are
>> correct.  If you mean that the IETF has not moved towards rather formal
>> steps for explicitly adopting working group drafts, I disagree.
> ...
>> Today, there is typically explicit text in the charter about adoption or
>> there is explicit wg approval.
>
> Indeed: we always have the option of having the charter limit
> management options.


Barry, I think you are trying to make a very different point from the 
one I am trying to make.

I think you are trying to assert that there is flexibility while I am 
trying to assert that there is common practice.  These are not mutually 
exclusive points.

My point about a formal process having emerged is that a chair/wg 
wanting to adopt a document has a well-established set of common 
practice.  It's not well (or at all) documented, but it exists in how 
working groups typically do things.

I was not trying to comment on the degree to which that process is 
mandated.  I acknowledge that fully documenting common practice, to make 
it "official" formal process, must combine both lines of concern.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
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