Re: Possible requirement: all normative references must be ready before IESG evaluation

--On tirsdag, januar 17, 2006 08:34:43 -0800 Paul Hoffman 
<paul.hoffman <at> vpnc.org> wrote:

> There are a number of IESG folks on this list: does that sound
> reasonable? Or are there good reasons to evaluate documents before all
> their normative references are ready?

Yes; when the normative reference is to a document in the hands of a 
dependable but slow-moving group, and the document under discussion is in 
the hands of a group where the WG chair is begging us to approve the 
document and shut it down before the proponents completely change their 
minds about what they want Once Again..... or when the IESG all has the 
document and its issues clearly in mind, and delaying it 6 months would 
cause it to be swapped out of their active memory...

I think we're reasonably well served with marking the "ref wait" state as 
"waiting on the IETF to do something" rather than "waiting for the 
publisher to do something", and not changing where it occurs in the 
sequence.

                    Harald