WG, was RE: [ietf-provreg] Services messages in RFC 3730

[Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@Neustar.biz>]

At 14:53 -0400 8/12/05, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Edward Lewis [mailto:Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz]
>>  Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:20 PM
>>  To: Hollenbeck, Scott
>>  Cc: Michael Young; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>>  Subject: RE: [ietf-provreg] Services messages in RFC 3730
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>>  >c. It's common IETF practice to add new features via extensions once
>>  >proposed standards are published.  Extension development is usually a
>>  >good reason to spin up a new working group.
>>
>>  On a tangent - do you mean to say that extensions ought to cause a
>>  new WG?  Up to now some extensions haven't been discussed in a (new)
>>  WG.
>
>What I'm saying is that it's not uncommon for a new group to form around
>the idea of adding new features to an established protocol without
>changing the established protocol.  The imapext working group, for
>example.  There generally has to be a lot of common ground among the
>implementing community to have this be successful.  In our case, it
>could mean that multiple people would want to work on the same
>extension(s), maybe due to an ICANN requirement or some other similar
>need that brings people together.
>
>It's also quite acceptable for someone to just write their own extension
>draft and push it through the standards process.  This is probably a
>better option if the extension has limited appeal.

What I expressed to someone after the CENTR meeting was that (for a 
particular extension) was that they could collect a group of CENTR 
members, hammer out a draft (DRAFT!, not specification, not RFC) and 
then bring that to the IETF.  In other words, it doesn't always have 
to start in the IETF - although having the IETF last call, and this 
list, as a significant "open discussion" of the work.
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