Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at wonderhamster.org>]

Yeah, I got wrapped around this on the WGchairs list, too. Thanks, Jeff, for 
schooling me.

The problem is that "other groups" really is open-ended, but we don't mean 
"other groups somewhere in the inhabited galaxy, that produce working drafts 
using the same format", we mean "other groups like IAB that are closely 
related to the IETF, but are not the IETF, and who ALSO use the same 
Internet-Drafts format, submission process and repository". Is there a 
shorthand for this, or do we have to stay vague to the point of 
meaninglessness?

Thanks,

Spencer


> The idea is generally acceptable to me but:
>
> > >   Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
> > >   Task Force (IETF).  Note that other groups may also distribute
> > >   working documents as Internet-Drafts.
>
> While we're at it, these two sentences are contradictory.
> "Internet-Drafts are a specific thing" but "some Internet-Drafts may be
> something else".  Since you have (reasonably) eliminated reference to
> areas and working groups, how about modifying this to say
>
> > The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) distributes its working
> > documents as Internet-Drafts.  Note that other groups may also
> > distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.