Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600,
>> Randy Presuhn wrote:
>>   
>>> Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology
>>> choices at the CANMOD BOF.  Our original proposal for consensus
>>> hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various
>>> proposals.  We were told we could *not* ask these questions, for fear
>>> of upsetting Eric Rescorla. 
>>>     
>> Well, it's certainly true that the terms--agreed to by the IESG and
>> the IAB--on which the BOF were held were that there not be a beauty
>> contest at the BOF but that there first be a showing that there was
>> consensus to do work in this area at all. I'm certainly willing to cop
>> to being one of the people who argued for that, but I was far
>> from the only one. If you want to blame me for that, go ahead.
>>
>> In any case, now that consensus to do *something* has been 
>> established it is the appropriate time to have discussion on 
>> the technology. I certainly never imagined that just because
>> there weren't hums taken in PHL that that meant no hums would
>> ever be taken.
> It's been a month since PHL.
> 
> The IETF's supposed to be able to work on mailing lists between 
> meetings, including being able to work when no WG exists - which of 
> course means working on mailing lists that are not WG lists.
>

Agreed -- this also means that the 'technical approach' straw poll
that did not occur in the CANMOD BoF is not really that important,
since final consensus needs to be confirmed on a designated mailing list.

> I congratulate the participants who worked on the charter on managing to 
> have the discussion and come to consensus on an approach. I think it's 
> up to Eric to demonstrate to the IESG that there's support in the 
> community for disagreeing with the consensus of the discussing participants.

+1

15 person (large!) design team.  1000s of emails.  Done in a month.
This is more effort than most WGs can muster.

> 
>                  Harald

Andy

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