On Oct 27, 2025, at 12:32 PM, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2025, at 20:04, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I tried to remove as much "authors can do $x" from the draft to align with >> those sentiments. > > That approach worries me a lot. > As an author, I need to know at the outset what I can do.
Before a draft even reaches the RFC Editor, it goes through a stream. So a document such as this that advises the RPC about its policy cannot tell you what you can do: you need to talk to your steam managers. > Or I won’t invest time into authoring, because too much time will be wasted > by senseless arguments. And hyperbole is completely destroying the IETF. (My little attempt at humor here...) > Of course that knowledge need not come from an RFC, but there needs to be > some community-fed collection of that knowledge. There is: the stream managers. They literally are the only ones who can say what might or might not advance to the RFC Editor for publication. --Paul Hoffman
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