Re: Status of the WG (January 2009)

Hi Magnus

But which actions could the NSIS WG take in order to help
some of the IESG members to abandon their abstain positions?

Best regards,
Georgios



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Magnus Westerlund
> Sent: woensdag 28 januari 2009 11:53
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NSIS] Status of the WG (January 2009)
> 
> Gerald Ash skrev:
> > Magnus,
> >  
> >>> It looks like Magnus has a backlog of documents to 
> review, some have 
> >>> been in his queue for months.  It would be good to get these 
> >>> documents reviewed so they can move forward to the IESG.
> >> Most of NSIS documents hasn't really been touched by me yet. The 
> >> reason is that I really like to see GIST approved before 
> processing 
> >> the other documents. If we can't get GIST approved the rest of the 
> >> documents has little value. Therefore I have been sitting on them.
> >>
> >> I hope we can get an updated version of GIST soon so that 
> we really 
> >> can go forward. I hope the update I am waiting for will be 
> sufficient 
> >> to get this approved. However, with this document I will 
> not promise anything.
> >  
> > I fail to see the logic in waiting for GIST to be approved before 
> > progressing other NSIS documents.  IMO we should make the 
> assumption 
> > that GIST will be approved after DISCUSS's are addressed to 
> the IESG's 
> > satisfaction.  Waiting for GIST completion to progress other NSIS 
> > documents just further delays these documents from getting into the 
> > IESG queue and prolongs the NSIS WG from completing its work (which 
> > has gone on too many years now).  The NSIS authors/editors 
> are doing 
> > their part in progressing their documents.  I urge you to 
> do your part 
> > in meeting the WG milestones (some of which are almost a 
> year overdue).
> >  
> 
> Gerald,
> 
> after having participated in over 2 years of discussion 
> around GIST I think it will be published without any more 
> significant changes. But until I have seen the others in IESG 
> abandon their Abstain positions  I am not certain of it. The 
> fact that these changes does affect the NSLP documents have 
> made me put of this review until I have seen clear progress of GIST.
> 
> I fully agree that all NSIS work has gone on too long. But me 
> spending too much time reviewing the documents that may need 
> to change isn't productive. I will continue with my AD 
> reviews of the NSIS documents when I cleared out the others 
> that I know can make progress.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Magnus Westerlund
> 
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