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"Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com> Wed, 02 July 2008 12:47 UTC

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From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>
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Speaking as an individual who has also participated in the work of other
standards organizations - In other SDOs, the IEEE 802 for example,
suggesting a fix for a problem detected in the text at ballot time is
not only welcome, but sometimes the recommended if not mandatory
practice. 

Dan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:58 AM
> To: Joel M. Halpern
> Cc: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Qualitative Analysis of IETF and IESG trends 
> (Re: Measuring IETF and IESG trends)
> 
> On 2008-07-02 09:07, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> > Of course, we also get complaints whenever anyone raises an issue 
> > without providing text.  So, by a strict reading of the 
> argument, the 
> > AD is hanged if he provides text (directing the working group) and 
> > hanged if he does not provide text (you didn't make clear what your 
> > problem is, and how to fix it.)
> 
> There is, I think a big difference between an AD writing
> 
> (a) "Here is the fix for my problem"
> and
> (b) "Here is my proposal for one way to fix this issue; there 
> may of course be other ways to do so, so please let me know 
> what the WG prefers to do."
> 
> But that takes time to type in, and an overloaded AD (or 
> reviewer) will be very tempted just to write "Suggested fix:".
> 
> Maybe we should assign specific (b) semantics to SUGGESTION 
> and use that as shorthand?
> 
>     Brian
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