Re: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation to Proposed Standard

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.fax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 01:26 AM 7/4/2002 -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
>That is a reasonable position.  But I suggest that it implies
>either that this material should go to Experimental, rather than
>Proposed, or that the mechanism should be defined as applicable
>to the cases that are understood and expanded only when the
>implications of that expansion are better understood.  Or...

As nearly as I can tell, your position is that folks can raise a spectre of 
myriad, unspecified, abstract and unlikely concerns and then use that as a 
claim that a specification should not go to Proposed...  Until this long 
list of negatives has been disproved.

That's very creative.  It also is at considerable odds with typical IETF 
criteria for advancement, John.  It is also a heck of a good way to make 
sure that no proposal ever goes to Proposed.

So, please explain what prompts such unique and extraordinary criteria for 
this simple and mundane proposal?

d/

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