Brian, > But I think there is a message here - badly phrased perhaps - that > running code is needed for such proposals to be thoroughly considered. > Suppose there was a proposal that all RFCs should be sourced as XML > files. We have a lot of running code to measure that proposal against. > Douglas Otis started work on running code for his alternative to ISDs. > I'm sure that's the best way to bring ideas in this space forward.
In general I agree that running code is the strongest indicator - one way or another. This having been said, process experiments with the document series are troublesome, because at the end of the experiment we are left in a situation where we have to clean it up, usually by further annotating the documents in some way that hopefully does not go against the intentions of prior decisions. Tricky stuff. I am in favor, instead, of an evolution as opposed to revolution. Let me stop there. I'll have a draft in the coming days over which we can further debate. Eliot _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
