Re: 6MAN Adoption call on draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Thu, 21 November 2013 17:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: 6MAN Adoption call on draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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On 21 Nov 2013, at 14:43, Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote:

> Le 2013-11-21 09:22, Ralph Droms a écrit :
>>> You're blowing what I said out of proportion. It's been made clear by our beloved AD that MUST vs SHOULD should not affect the adoption call. I'm just repeating the obvious.
>> 
>> I don't think Brian wrote exactly "MUST vs SHOULD should not affect the adoption call".  I think he wrote that s/MUST/SHOULD/ can be discussed by the WG after adoption, and those expressing an opinion on the adoption call should keep that fact in mind.
>> 
>> The chairs can then consider the objecting opinions and decide if those objections are addressed by Brian's observation, and that "rough consensus" can be declared in favor of adoption.
>> 
>> In my personal opinion the effect of s/MUST/SHOULD/ is important enough in its impact on existing standards like 6LoWPAN header compression that I object to publishing the document as a WG work item until the change is made.  The chairs will evaluate that objection as part of their determination of "rough consensus".
> 
> I fully agree. Thanks for writing that. That's what I would have wanted to write, but I'm not an eloquent man. Anyway, let's not try to find disagreement where there is none.

Yes, well put.

Tim