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Who raised the bar? [Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 21:59 UTC

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Subject: Who raised the bar? [Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels]
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On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote:
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> My personal opinion for some time has been that we ought to recognize that
> the previous PS moved into "WG draft" years ago and that anything named an
> RFC should be recognized as something that market will consider a standard.

And who raised the bar? It wasn't the IESG, it was the market, and more
specifically the product managers and IT managers who adopted RFC conformance
as their criterion.

I'm a bit fed up with the IESG being blamed for this, rather than being
congratulated on adapting to it.

    Brian

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