From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 10:58:22 CDT
Mind you, a Final Draft International Standard can be rejected. If this
happens, either the process may be restarted or it may be downgraded to
a technical report.
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Peter Constable wrote:
>>From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr]
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>> Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote
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>>>Adraft is not approved as long as it is a draft; the draft is still
>>>a request for comments, meaning that corrections (including
>>>additions and deletions) are still possible.
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>>Sorry, but you are completely wrong. But you have a good reason for
>>that: IETF, like the Unicode consortium or the ISO or any human
>>creation has its own set of idiosyncrasies and outsiders do not know
>>them.
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>>So, the document is formally a draft (since the RFC was not issued)
>>but it can no longer be modified inside IETF: it has been approved by
>>the IESG as is
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> Philippe's comment is also wrong in relation to ISO process: a Final Draft International Standard can be approved, cannot undergo technical changes but is still called a draft.
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> Peter
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