Re: Appeal of decision to standardize "Mapping Between the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Internet Mail"

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> On 16:07 14/06/2005, John C Klensin said:
>
> > > John, I don't see any text in RFC 2026 that gives an appeal
> > > suspensive effect. However, as a matter of common sense, I
> > > have asked the Secretariat to request the RFC Editor to
> > > suspend RFC publication.
>
>
> I support this. It creates a sensible jurisprudence.

To be clear, this isn't a court of law, so the notion of
jurisprudence doesn't apply. I specifically referred to
common sense for that reason. In other circumstances, I might
have decided otherwise.

    Brian

> The fear of DoS is legitimate, but also of an affinity group forcing an 
> RFC in the hope that immediate decisions taken make the appeal moot. 
> This is in particular the case if the RFC documents and feeds a IANA 
> registry.
>
> This is precisely a thing were arbitrary decisions should never be 
> allowed, since it is contentious. It should be mechanical one way or 
> another. The way is now set.
>
> jfc
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