Re: [idn] Future of the requirements document

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

Erik,

When I made my notice under 2026 of a process issue I tried to keep
both the issue, its background, and the proposed remedy as narrow
and as constructive as I could.

I asserted that the was a process error in the co-chairs failure to
direct the editors to be responsive to two specific comments, and
that the remedy could be as simple as the co-chairs direction to the
editors to be responsive, and that until the document reflects the
requirements of the WG that the IESG defer its action on the draft.
This would have captured my test-case, comments by others, and had
as small a consequential scope as could reasonably be expected to
fix the document, and fix nothing else.

It is a fact that a co-chair is a co-editor.

It is a fact that the co-chairs don't think that the editors have
been non-responsive.

Accepting documents by a working group, and discarding documents
by a working group, are working group actions. Every contributor,
chair, AD, etc., may hum one way or another on the consensus to
act on the question.

Now that the response to one or more process demands for either a
change, or an accountability for changes, or lack of changes, is
known to be abandonment in-place by the current editors, the only
proper course of conduct open is to find new editors.

I suggest that David Hopwood and I take on the responsibility of
being editors of the requirements draft, and that he and I bear the
responsibility for ensuring that only the necessary WG time is used
to make only the necessary changes in the requirements draft. I've
not asked David, but I have seen his note of today, and his prior
notes, both on changes and the frustration with non-response.

Assuming that Seng and Wenzel have expressed a desire to cease the
duty of being editors for a requirements document for this working
group, I volunteer. David has as well. There may be others able and
willing to do so as well.

The editors need only provide access to the current nroff source.

Eric