Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme

Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> Tue, 12 April 2016 23:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme
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On 13 April 2016 at 09:21, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> In technical terms, document seems to suffer some confusion about its
>> role as a format specification, versus as a protocol specification.  I
>> believe this issue is basic and important.  It needs to be resolved.
>>
>> For a specification involving such a potentially and presumably important
>> capability, I think significant community support should be required...
>> unless the spec is to be offered as Experimental, which is the most I'm
>> inclined to recommend at this point...
>>
>
> Thanks, Dave.  I've consulted with our ADs and they're fine with keeping
> APPSAWG open to process this document so long as we see continued work on
> its development.  If it goes stale again for too long, we'll likely shut
> down without completing this final milestone and pass the document over to
> DISPATCH for disposition under their handling model.  If we're sure we want
> Standards Track, that will mean sponsorship by an AD, or a (likely
> small/short) working group to finish it off.
>
> Matthew, do you have the time to put into closing this out?
>
> -MSK
>

Yes, I don't foresee any big obstacles in the coming weeks/month. I'm
working my way through Dave's feedback right now, in fact.

Cheers
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  Matthew Kerwin
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