Re: ID-NITS on: draft-smith-urn-mpeg-01.txt

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <200304272032.h3RKWZo28174@boreas.isi.edu>, Bob Braden writes:
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>  *> One of our concerns is that we have a number of things on our ID-NITs
>  *> list that are more "nice to adhere too, but if you don't, then RFc-Editor
>  *> has no trouble with it and can easily fix it in their editing process.
>  *> 
>Bert,
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>It is unclear to me why this should be an intense concern of the IESG,
>given the very real concerns that the IESG has about the ongoing work
>of the IETF.

One reason is that some non-IESGers have been objecting to I-Ds that 
don't meet the nits.  If they're important, we should enforce them; if 
they aren't, let's pull them from the list, and save everyone work.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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