Re: Design pattern

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
> To: <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Design pattern
...
> Sorry for the rant.  But this business of people sending out
> half-baked stuff as if it were finished really gets my goat.
> And it sure seems that stuff with MIB compilation errors is
> very likely to have a number of much more serious problems
> lurking ... I think I hear in this an echo of Patrik Fältström's
> recent message to the problem-statement mailing list
>
> http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/problem-statement/2003-June/002363.html
>
> where he speaks of using ID-nits as a proxy for determining
> if a document has had proper review.
...

He has some very good points.
It's appalling how many I-Ds don't even pass the "is it ASCII" test,
even stuff that has gotten past WG last calls.

Randy