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Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

sob@harvard.edu (Scott O. Bradner) Tue, 26 October 2010 11:58 UTC

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> The known problem is it takes well over four years to get anything
> published.

...

> What I *am* hoping is that with two, clearly defined maturity levels, we
> can go back to publishing Proposed Standards in about a year

the only way that could happen is if the IESG were to change their ways a lot
and permit less complete documents to be published as PS

Scott

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