Re: [yam] Referencing 1652bis and update to RFC 5321/5322

[Tony Hansen <[e-mail]>]

If Russ' two step process goes forward, then the YAM working group's 
current charter will be complete.

At that point, we will have some choices to make such as whether we shut 
down the WG or whether we recharter.

When we started up YAM, we did discuss several possibilities for 
post-Full Standard work, including working on the numerous documents 
sitting in Proposed Standard state.

It will be up to the WG to make a decision when the time comes.

     Tony Hansen
     Your Friendly Neighborhood Co-Chair

On 6/29/2010 1:06 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
> On 6/29/2010 7:09 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>>> If the proposal being promoted by Russ is chosen, then there's 
>>> nothing for
>>> this wg to do: everything that is a candidate for the wg should
>>> automatically already be at the final level. No?
>>
>> I would hope that the YAM working group exists to improve the e-mail 
>> related
>> RFCs.
>
> Jari,
>
> This might reflect continuing confusion about the purpose of the YAM 
> working group.
>
> In pragmatic terms, as odd as it might seem, that is almost explicitly 
> NOT what
> the working is chartered to do.
>
> "Full" standard is really about community acceptance, rather than 
> being about improving the specifications.  For YAM, the focus in 
> writing the charter was specifically NOT to make any interesting 
> changes.  Anything that seems to call for interesting changes is 
> required to /disqualify/ the specification from further consideration...
>
> d/