Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

[Eric Burger <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:55 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> On 31st July 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote, in part:

[snip]

>> It might cause a change, simply because the effort of making the single
>> move PS->IS will get you to the end state, whereas previously you had
>> to make two efforts, PS->DS->STD. But only time will tell if this changes
>> our collective behaviour.
> 
> Making this process change definitely will change my attitude 
> towards trying to advance standards-track RFCs that I am directly 
> involved with.  
> 
> Until now, the process overhead to move from PS to STD was far too great 
> to justify the time spent.  My perception is that this change reduces 
> the process work substantially -- and a change in perception (i.e. 
> "perception" by itself) is sufficient to increase my own motivation 
> to make the attempt.  
> 
> While perception normally varies widely between individuals, 
> on virtually all topics, I am not alone in in the view
> I've expressed just above.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Ran

This is the intent.