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Re: [tcpm] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-tcpm-urgent-data-00

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Sat, 08 November 2008 01:48 UTC

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Fernando Gont wrote:
...
>> Simply
>> describing it as "what has been deployed" is insufficient justification
>> to call this anything other than a bug without further rationale.
> 
> And... what would that change? Okay, I can answer this one for you: More
> and more people would look somewhere else to find out how the protocols
> work in practice.
> 
> P.S.: What was it called? "rough consensus and.... "?

It's not "running code." either.

We are not here to write documents that describe only what has been
implemented. We need to decide what the target is.

If you want merely to document "what is", that's a fine description for
a man page, but it doesn't provide utility in a standards body.

Joe
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