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Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Sun, 30 January 2011 16:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> > The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it
> is
> > now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed.
>
> That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two.
>

Not at all, many protocols are never successfully deployed.

In the case that a protocol is successfully deployed, the final protocol has
frequently required major modification. Documenting those changes has value.


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