From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 11:29:00 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> I don't think this WG, in the main, wants any great upheaval from what
> we currently have. As you say, this is a matter for the IESG. But it is
> useful to know at this stage what formal objections are or are not going
> to be made.
Basically, I'm feeling very torn.
I don't like the current draft. I do think that you've done a good job of
editing the draft, Charles; you very reasonably chose not to tackle a
complete rewrite, and I can understand that, and my problems are basically
structural flaws that can't be corrected without a complete rewrite.
I feel like a large portion of our current draft consists mainly of people
trying to fix their own pet political problems with Usenet by dictating
one side or another in the standard rather than really designing a
standard for interoperability. I also think there's still a bit too much
in there that hasn't actually been implemented, although that's gotten
better. And I think the general structure is unnecessarily unclear, in
large part due to trying to carry the weight of all that other baggage.
On the other hand, I have to seriously ask two other questions: Whether I
think that any other group is going to be able to do any better than this,
and whether not having a current standard is worse than publishing this
one. I'm not entirely sure on the answer to either of those questions.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>