[caops-wg] GFD.125 to P-REC?

[Alan Sill]

Hi David and the CAOps group,

I'd like to suggest that we think collectively about the considerations that have led us to put forward the very useful and by now quite mature CAOPs document GFD.125 as a "COmmunity Practice" document and not as a proposed recommendation.  I understand that historically, there was some thought that this profile might not represent a collection of items that ought to be standardized, but I think that experience has shown most of its content to be important, if not essential.

With this in mind, I'd like to raise the issue of whether this quite mature document, or another one quite close to it in intent, might be worth putting forward into the stream as a proposed recommendation.  To go from a proposed to a full recommendation would take the passage of some time and demonstration of multiple implementations; I am willing to consider the multiple adoptions of GFD.125 by CAs throughout the world as implementations for this purpose.

There may be other points of view, but now is the time to discuss them, I think, and so would like to ask for your input.

Thanks,
Alan