Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: BCP 83 PR-Action Against Dan Harkins

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 10/4/22 01:54, Adam Roach wrote:

>> I have sometimes been accused of endlessly repeating the same 
>> argument, when I was actually trying to refine and clarify the 
>> argument, attempting to improve it over time based on feedback. 
>
>
> That kind of refinement is entirely reasonable; and I agree that it's 
> part of finding consensus. I've been looking pretty closely at your 
> series of statements on this topic and trying to find the evolution in 
> your position, but am having difficulty doing so (which might be on me 
> or on you or some combination of the two). Perhaps it would be helpful 
> for readers seeking to identify such refinement -- and significantly 
> more efficient for you and other participants -- if future emails were 
> to simply explain where your position has evolved, and we can assume 
> that everything *else* you've previously said remains in effect. 
> Basically, the semantic equivalent of sending patch files instead of 
> an entire source code tree each time. 
To clarify, I haven't been doing that kind of refinement (so far) in 
most of my messages posted to /this/ thread.  So far.

What I've mostly been doing (in the background) is a detailed review of 
the messages cited in the Last Call, trying to figure out just what the 
supposed problems with those messages were. Without IESG having 
explicitly said what those problems were, that was essentially an 
exercise in guesswork, though I did find a few things that were at least 
subject to varying interpretation.   I plan to send that detailed review 
to iesg@ after a bit more polishing, with a request to keep it in 
confidence.

Separately from that, I've been writing a public response to the Last 
Call.  I also plan to post that after another bit of polishing.

Although I really want to get back to paying work, I don't want to be in 
a hurry to send either message.  I think this is a serious enough 
subject that I should spend as much time as I can spare to make those 
messages as clear and well-supported as possible.

Keith