Re: WG consensus on direction

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:18:39PM -0500, David B Harrington wrote:
 
> At this point, Dan and I are working on the assumption that WG
> consensus is to get our documents into a stable state and published as
> an RFC before transitioning responsibility for further updates to the
> IEEE. This topic was identified as an open issue as part of the WG
> last call. 
> 
> This chartered work started before 1D-2004 was approved. I believe we
> are not trying to update to the latest state of IEEE documents, but to
> finalize work that was started three years ago - updates to include
> support for 1t, 1u, 1v, etc., not for 1D-2004. 
> 
> If WG consensus is that we should try to synchronize to the current
> IEEE documents, then I believe we will need to re-charter. Given the
> lack of participatioin in this WG, I have strong doubts a re-charter
> would be approved.
> 
> If WG consensus is that we should not publish something known to be
> out of date, we can ask the IEEE 802.1 WG to take our documents "as
> is", do the synchronization, and let them finalize and publish what we
> have been unable to finalize and publish.
> 
> Everybody speak up as to what direction you want to take - finalize
> the current, out-of-sync documents, re-charter to synchronize, or turn
> them over to the IEEE for completion?

Does this synchronization issue affect both documents in the same
way?

/js

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