At 05:07 AM 11/11/99 -0800, Dennis Glatting wrote:
>Therefore, I offer to you this rule to consider:
>
> Once something is committed to paper in a WG a timer
> starts. The document has 24 months (6 IETF sessions)
> to either be sent to the IESG for advancement or
> with WG consensus the Chair petitions the AD for a
> two session extension, which can be extended in the
> same manner again. Otherwise the document is
> withdrawn.
>
>I believe this rule to add something the IETF sorely needs but is
>unfair to impose: a little bit of project management. It's advantage
>is very low overhead.
It is not clear that this needs to be a "rule". It seems to me that, if an
IETF member thinks that a WG draft has been alive too long, a letter to the
WG chair with a Cc to the AD should be sufficient. I am hesitant to have a
"rule" as compared to a "best current practice".
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
