RE: process question

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Mmmm.... what a "refreshing" and "strange" discussion after we
heard all the discussions that the 3 level standard makes no
sense cause nobody ever bothers to advance beyond PS.

Thanks,
Bert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no]
> Sent: vrijdag 26 september 2003 22:19
> To: Scott Bradner; edlewis@arin.net; wgchairs@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: process question
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> --On 26. september 2003 14:55 -0400 Scott Bradner
> <sob@harvard.edu> wrote:
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> >> > 6.2  Advancing in the Standards Track
> >> >
> >> >    A specification shall remain at the Proposed Standard
> level for at
> >> >    least six (6) months.
> >>
> >> When does this clock start ticking?
> >>
> >
> > in my opinion (fwtw) its from when the IESG approves publication
>
> that's what I think too... the gotcha might be that to get to
> Draft, you
> need to have all the normative references at the same and
> higher level,
> which may mean that you can't get there until the *trailing*
> doucment is 6
> months out of the IESG......
>
> but as you say, that's not the big hurdle.
>
>                      Harald
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