ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

[Stan O. Barber]

"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
> 
> Stan O. Barber said:
> >> In several places I made a proposal and nobody said anything one way or the
> >> other. It was only last week that I discovered you'd accepted some of them.
> >
> > That's because I didn't do the current set of edits until recently. I like to
> > wait a bit between edits of big documents so I can feed like I have a "fresher"
> > view of the document.
> 
> Unfortunately this view of the process means that nobody else knows what is
> going on. For example, I have written new text for six sections in the past
> week. While some (e.g. MODE READER) are still jelling, I have seen no
> comment on others, and would like to know whether there are any issues with
> them *now*, so that I can discuss them while they're fresh in my mind.
> 
> Concrete example: in November I wrote:
> 
>     >      9.2.1 ARTICLE
> 
>     This and the next three commands are *very* similar, and the reader will
>     have difficulty in determining the differences between them. I would
>     suggest that almost all the text is moved into 9.2.
> 
> You didn't do it. Why not ? If you'd made some comment back then, we could
> have thrashed it out on the list - for example, if you wanted to see exact
> wording before deciding, I could have done it then and the current draft
> would perhaps be more readable as a result. As it is, the issue I mention -
> determining the differences - is *still* an issue.

I didn't do it because I didn't agree with you.


> 
> >> I will. But it would have helped if you'd *said* months ago that you
> >> weren't accepting that change, and why.
> > You assume that months ago I was making these decisions. They were made just
> > before the draft was released.
> 
> In which case I think you're doing it wrongly.

Very well, shall we open the floor to replace me as editor?
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