Re: Adoption Call for "Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events"

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

FYI (not for discussion here, really):

There's https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-gendispatch-draft-adoption
which I hope one of my co-authors will bring up in the gendispatch meeting.

Regards
   Brian

On 13-Jul-20 16:49, Erik Kline wrote:
>>> (I'd disagree with the argument that 'adopting does not mean the
>>> draft will be published as it is so let's adopt it and figure out
>>> the content later'. IMHO adopting the draft means that the WG agrees
>>> with the proposed standard changes in principle and is willing to
>>> work on polishing the details.
>>
>> My understanding is that adoption means that there's agreement on the
>> problem to be solved, and that the document serves as a basis for the WG
>> to work on the issue. Clearly, a document that is still an individual
>> submission does not necessarily reflect WG consensus -- even when we
>> have worked with folks that have submitted feedback in that direction.
>>
>> Maybe the AD can clarify?
> 
> Between the "first individual submission upload" and any "advance to
> WGLC" is a slider with a thumb [1] for "wg adoption" somewhere along
> the track.  Whether that thumb is closer to first upload or closer to
> WGLC seems to vary by working group and by topic/document.
> 
> If part of a document has broad consensus and part does not, there are
> still several ways forward -- many of which seem to have been
> mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
> 
> [1] https://material.io/components/sliders#continuous-slider
> 
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