Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/3/19 4:15 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:10 PM Keith Moore <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     On 7/3/19 4:04 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
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>     > Hi there all,
>     >
>     > TL;DR: Being able to mark a specific version of an *Internet
>     Draft* as
>     > “stable” would often be useful. By encoding information in the name
>     > (stable-foo-bar-00) we can do this.
>     >
>     > Heather and I will be holding a side meeting at IETF 105 to discuss
>     > the idea and get feedback.
>     > When: Tue, July 23, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
>     > Where: C2 (21st Floor)
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>     It seems to me that this would defeat the entire purpose of
>     Internet-Drafts and serve to circumvent the IETF process. There
>     should be no expectation of stability until a document has reached
>     IETF-wide consensus.
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> Why is it necessary to conjoin those two things?

Because a working group does not have the authority to make such 
decisions on its own.   To the extent that it would be desirable to 
invest such authority in some body for some specific purpose, a working 
group is the wrong kind of body to do that.   The norms around IETF WG 
operation aren't the right ones for such a body.

Keith