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

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Tue, 06 September 2011 22:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: Who raised the bar? [Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels]
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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, "ned+ietf@mauve.mrochek.com" <ned+ietf@mauve.mrochek.com>, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>, IETF-Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Tue Sep  6 23:01:12 2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote:
> ...
> > 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?

I couldn't give a damn. I'm far more concerned with who's lowering it.

To rephrase - where the bar is is significant, not how it got there.  
Moving it further up would not have real harm on the end result -  
although it does incur us more pain in meeting the bar - but lowering  
it does have problematic knock-on effects.

Dave.
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