Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor

"Aaron Falk" <aaron.falk@gmail.com> Thu, 12 July 2018 16:45 UTC

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From: Aaron Falk <aaron.falk@gmail.com>
To: Eliot Lear <lear=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, rfcplusplus@ietf.org, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>, stpeter@mozilla.com
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Subject: Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor
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On 12 Jul 2018, at 2:26, Eliot Lear wrote:

> At a cursory level that would argue for labeling not based on whether
> something has achieved rough consensus in the IETF, but rather based 
> on
> how well fielded an approach is.  That would require two things: a
> measure of adoption, something we have greatly struggled with in the
> past, and relabeling from time to time.

Elliot! This seems to me to be very interesting, useful, and difficult. 
(YMMV, of course)  MAPRG is touching on some aspects of this.

--aaron