Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] New xml2rfc release: v2.25.0

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

On 8/30/19 12:53 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 30.08.2019 06:43, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2019, at 06:21, Julian Reschke <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to find where 'consensus' is explained.
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7991.html#element.rfc.attribute.consensus> 
>>>
>>
>> I’m not sure whether you are serious when you say the attribute is 
>> “explained” there.
>> Yes, there is text about this attribute.
>> No, it is not explained.
>> The reference to 7841 just points to more text about “consensus” 
>> there, but not about the meaning of this attribute.
>
> There's more text at
> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7991.html#attribute-consensus>;
> and the main definition should reference that:
>
>> A.3. The "consensus" Attribute
>>
>> For some of the publication streams (see Appendix A.2), the "Status 
>> of This Memo" section depends on whether there was a consensus to 
>> publish (again, see Section 3.4 of [RFC7841]).
>>
>> The consensus attribute can be used to supply this information. The 
>> acceptable values are "true" (the default) and "false"; "yes" and 
>> "no" from v2 are deprecated.
>>
>> The effect of this value for the various streams is:
>>
>>     "independent": none.
>>     "IAB": mention that there was an IAB consensus.
>>     "IETF": mention that there was an IETF consensus.
>>     "IRTF": mention that there was a research group consensus (where 
>> the name of the research group is extracted from the <workgroup> 
>> element).
>
> Best regards, Julian

Oh, Dear Lord, this is such a wonderful addition that captures the state 
of work.  It just calls out for an April 1 RFC!!!!!

Is if fine grain enough.  What about design team consensus, or work 
group consensus, to Webster's definition of consensus to Oxford 
definition of consensus (boy was that a fun meeting of US and UK people 
back in '95!: "We have consensus here." "What are you saying, we do not 
consent to this proposal!").

Then if there is a consensus attribute, where is the running_code 
attribute.  How many interoperable versions?

Oh the potential!!!!

Carsten and Julian, are you up for an RFC on this one?    :)

I would love to see your German take on the US vs UK discussions on 
tabling...

Bob