Re: [iola-conversion-tool] "Intended std level" on Add/Edit screen

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Wed, 22 February 2012 20:43 UTC

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The main document page currently labels this with " Intended RFC status:"

On 2/22/12 8:18 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Cindy, Amy, Ole,
>
> On 2012-02-22 13:55 Ole Laursen said:
>> 2012/2/21 Cindy Morgan<cmorgan@amsl.com>:
>>> On the Add/Edit screen (e.g. https://trackerbeta.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-avtcore-ecn-for-rtp/edit/info/), was the "Intended status" field (in the production version) changed to "Intended std level" for a reason?  Because I read that as "Intended Standard level," but not all I-Ds/RFC are on the standards track.
>> Hm, the name of the underlying attribute changed and it appears that
>> changed the form, too.
>>
>> Regarding the name, I read it as "intended standardization level". The
>> reason we're going with it in the database is that "status" is a vague
>> word - for a draft/RFC we've consolidated several entities ending up
>> with a bunch of different states/statuses so it ends up being
>> important that we have descriptive names.
>>
>> And it appears we have no good word for standards track maturity level
>> + non-standards track maturity levels + BCP, so that's why it ended up
>> being standardization level. Does that make sense?
>>
>> I can easily change the form back to say intended status, but if you
>> think it's okay, I'd prefer if the interface uses the same terminology
>> as the database?
> As Ole says, since we are moving in the direction of displaying many
> different status fields (WG status, IESG status, RFC-Ed status, and
> more (including the (Internet Std/Proposed Std/Informational/Experimental/...))
> status, we need to be more explicit than saying just "Intended status".
>
> Any appropriately descriptive term for the intended standardization level
> is OK, as long as it can be understood and is distinct from all the other
> status fields we show ...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Henrik
>
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