On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Nit:
>
> > NOTE: The Note Well has changed.  It now incorporates more legal
> > verbiage around IPR disclosure.  Everyone should review this.
>
> The slide shown in the WG seems to be out of date compared to
> https://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html, but the substantive
> changes aren't in the Note Well; they are in RFC8179.
>
> More substantive:
>
> > - Andy Bierman: our review process discourages people from implementing
> >      early.  Once it gets to the AD and the IESG, they can change
> >      anything they want.
>
> If a reviewer or an IESG member suggests a substantive change,
> that doesn't give *them* the right to change it - a substantive
> change must be brought back to the WG. So the underlying problem
> here is not about who has control but about the fact that
> implementing on the run almost guarantees that your implementation
> will be out of date when the thing is finalised. That really is
> not specific to yang, or to the IETF, or to networking.
>
>

The WG has a choice: change the draft if you want it to be published as an
RFC.
They are usually motivated to clear the DISCUSS.


> (In 1925, public electricity supply in London was at 24 different
> voltages and 10 different frequencies. They didn't wait for the
> standard to be final then, either.)
>
> It seems to me that declaring snapshots from time to time is
> about the best we can do, accompanied by a strong warning that
> the final version will be different.
>


I am not suggesting the review process needs to be examined (again).
People are warned that a work-in-progress can change.



>
>     Brian
>


Andy


>
> _______________________________________________
> OPSAWG mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
>
_______________________________________________
OPSAWG mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg

Reply via email to