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

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Sun, 30 January 2011 15:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)
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On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Sullivan 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.   

Is there an implicit assumption here that more standards (presumably of poorer quality) is a good thing?

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