Re: the names that aren't DNS names problem, was Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt>

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

It took ten years to get RFC6762 and RFC6763 published.   Very little work
was done during that time, in comparison to the amount of time spent.

.onion went comparatively quickly, because a different SDO lit a fire under
our feet.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 7/24/2015 6:58 AM, Richard Shockey wrote:
>
>> The cost problem is getting out of hand around
>> here, but the real causation is endless process delays.
>>
>
>
> I believe someone around here did an analysis of the allocation of
> calendar time, for various parts of the sequence to create a proposed
> standard.
>
> I certainly agree that process overhead could be better and probably much
> better, but I hope no one is surprised to hear that the analysis showed
> that deliberations by the IESG, IETF Last Call, and even RFC Editor
> handling are usually a small fraction of the calendar budget.
>
> Working groups often think nothing of taking years to develop something
> that probably could have been done in months, if the working group
> seriously thought the issue urgent and were willing to create and sustain
> serious focus on solving the issue that prompted creation of the effort.
>
> I'll bet one could generate a number of legitimate examples amongst the
> current inventory of working groups, if one wanted to...
>
>
> d/
>
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>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
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