This statement will come as no surprise to those PWG folks who've
been around for a while.
Having a bonafide "IETF standard" seems to foster the perception that
the standard is "real" and "genuine" in one or more ways, although I
think everyone will be hard pressed to explain exactly why that is.
IMHO, as long as a publicly available document repository exists for
interested parties to extract related documents, a "standard" can
be produced by anyone and used by anyone (assuming copyrights aren't
a problem, of course).
If a given industry decides to align itself towards delivering
products based around a set of standards, it should not matter
who or what produces that standard.
Customers are interested in solutions, not standards. I know this
sounds like Motherhood-and-Apple-Pie, but some folks seem to think
otherwise, based on various postings on PWG mailing lists.
I personally see no reason for the PWG's JMP effort to be sanctioned
by the IETF. Instead, JMP should serve as the very first PWG-based
standard published in the printer industry.
What problems do people see with this position?
...jay
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lpyoung@lexmark.com wrote:
>
> I want to turn this discussion around 180 degrees. Why do you
> want to be chartered by the IETF? This is probably heresy coming
> from an IETF working group chairman but I really do not see any
> advantage for the JOB MIB to be chartered by the IETF. All that
> seems to matter is that an RFC number is attached to the JOB MIB
> which will happen by it being informational. I do not see the
> level (Informational, Proposed, Draft, etc.) that a MIB is at
> making any difference in whether a MIB is successful in the
> marketplace. Success in the marketplace is determined by a
> lot of factors more than merely whether the MIB is on an
> IETF Standards Track.
> Regards,
> Lloyd
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