Re: Uneccesary slowness.

[Bill Manning <bmanning at karoshi.com>]

perhaps....   but i think (based on personal experience w/ the 
"discover" draft
first submitted in 1998 - still in "process") that the reason for the 
increased
"slowness" in getting documents through the RFC Editor is the 
extra-ordinary
burden placed on the RFC editor staff to coordinate w/ and through the
IETF's IAB/IESG functions and the creation of onerous "objective" checks
that must be done before the RFC editor can proceed with document
publication.  Historically, the RFC editor had broad subjective power to
publish or not - since the community then trusted the technical 
grounding of
the RFC editor.  The Editor has not changed - the community has lost 
trust in
the RFC editor to do the proper/correct thing and tries to 
"second-guess" the
RFC editor at every step of the way... which is the real reason for the 
extra-long
time it takes to get a document published.

IMHO, if the RFC editor was given the same latitude it had in 1997, 
publication would
take weeks, not months or years.  of course YMMV.

--bill


On May 15, 2005, at 4:55, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> This would be a good topic for the newtrk WG, I think,
> since it is so specific.
>
>    Brian
>
> James M. Polk wrote:
> > At 08:22 PM 5/14/2005 -0400, Will McAfee wrote:
> > > I think the minimum time before a document can pass to another
> > > standards-track state is ridiculously long.  If an rfc is huge, I can
> > > understand that.  But to sweep that over all of them?  A two-page
> > > proposed standard can take an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to
> > > pass through!
> > each of the normative references need to be at that higher level too 
> > though... even for your 2 page PS-RFC
> > > I say we have variations based on how long the document
> > > is.
> > >
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