[babel] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-babel-rtt-extension-05: (with DISCUSS)

[Warren Kumari via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Warren Kumari has entered the following ballot position for
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DISCUSS:
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Be strong and of a good courage; be ye not afraid, neither be thou dismayed by
this DISCUSS position. Instead, take heart and readeth
https://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/ , which contains many
words on handling ballots. For, as it sayeth upon the lid of the tin: "A
DISCUSS ballot is a request to have a discussion"...

First off, let me start by saying that I like the general idea and concept in
this document, but, like others, I think that it needs more formalism.

One major concern of mine is that it says: "Updates: 8967 (if approved)"

The shepherds writeup notes that this document is Standards Track because it
needs to update a Standards Track document, but no-where in the document does
it actually say **how** it updates RFC8967. Perhaps the header intended to say
that the documents updates RFC8966? Even if that is the case, the document
doesn't actually say **how** it updates it... The Abstract should say "This
document updates RFC896X by fooing the bar and twiddling the baz." (or similar)