Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-09-06 Thread David L. Nicol
"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote: It's hitting a moving target :-( I continue to explain myself until my mistakes become clear, that's why I'm often wrong.

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-30 Thread Bart Lateur
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:54:17 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: The IMPLEMENTATION section of the RFC is supposed to be mandatory, but there have been an awful lot of RFCs posted that have missing or evasive IMPLEMENTATION sections. I found more than 39% of all RFCs have a missing or incomplete

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-30 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:34:10PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: The IMPLEMENTATION section of the RFC is supposed to be mandatory, but there have been an awful lot of RFCs posted that have missing or evasive IMPLEMENTATION sections. Well, I have to counter

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-30 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:29:33PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: Any requirements on how solid an implementation section should be should be left to the working group chairs. Sorry, I don't understand this. What is the WGC's role here? My english native language is? :-) I meant to

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-30 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:29:33PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: Any requirements on how solid an implementation section should be should be left to the working group chairs. Sorry, I don't understand this. What is the WGC's role here? My english native language is? :-) I

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-30 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:04:03PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: Suppose a WGC establishes a requirement for the solidity of the implementation section, and receives an RFC that does not meet the requirements. What then? If the WGC chair sets forth explicit requirements as to what

Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-29 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
The IMPLEMENTATION section of the RFC is supposed to be mandatory, but there have been an awful lot of RFCs posted that have missing or evasive IMPLEMENTATION sections. I found more than 39% of all RFCs have a missing or incomplete implementation section. Here are the results of my survey.

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-29 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
These 13 ( 8%) had very brief IMPLEMENTATION sections that didn't contain any substantive discussion. These 21 (13%) contained remarks about the author's ignorance. These 15 ( 9%) had no IMPLEMENTATION section at all. The distinction between

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-29 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:26:29PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: I'd like to amend my proposal. Suppose that the librarian *suggests* that RFC authors contact the WG chair when they submit RFCs that omit the implementation section? That way nobody is forced to do anything, and many

Re: Proposal for IMPLEMENTATION sections

2000-08-29 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFCs: 21 26 62 84 88 110 112 131 136 137 140 149 162 165 166 These 15 ( 9%) had no IMPLEMENTATION section at all. I was surprised that the librarian had even accepted these, since