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[saag] Re: [rfc-i] RFCs vs Standards

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 11 December 2024 14:02 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:01:50 -0800
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 5:27 AM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch> wrote:
> >
> > For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments
> to drafts than I do with drafts not being considered working documents.
>
> I believe the magical solution to all this is:
>
> Make no changes.
>
> The way things are arranged here kind of works, even if ugly in come
> corners, and nobody has yet come up with a proposed change that would
> actually improve the outcome.
>

Rather, nobody has come up with a proposed change that can get consensus.
That is a totally different question from whether proposed changes would
improve the outcome.

-Ekr


>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
>

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