Re: [CCAMP] WG Last Call on draft-ietf-ccamp-flexi-grid-fwk-03 and call for sheperd

[Ramon Casellas <[e-mail]>]

Dear Matt,

Please see inline

El 20/05/2015 a las 17:07, Matt Hartley (mhartley) escribió:
>
> Ramon,
>
> Is this doc informational or standards-track? It claims to be 
> informational, but it has RFC 2119 language in it.
It is a good question, which has been popping frequently during the 
lifetime of the draft. The last indication I received (internally) was 
that it should be informational, and I changed it. I guess the problem 
is that as a fwk document is mainly informational, but at some point in 
the distant past, it was decided to include also control plane 
requirements (I guess those are the sections that use RFC 2119 
language). Maybe wiser people can comment on this, but it was my 
(admittedly limited) understanding that those are non-exclusive (i.e., 
RFCs may be informational but yet define requirements and use RFC2119 
language to indicate requirement levels, adding the appropriate 
boilerplate).


Also, it’s missing the standard boilerplate for this stuff:

Uhm, afaik, it is not (I just checked both in -03 and -04 and the 
boilerplate is there $2.1). The change standards track -> informational 
happened in -04.

In any case, no objection either way. I will proceed with whatever 
option is more appropriate


> Also: you currently have six main authors, and my understanding is 
> that the RFC Editor’s guidelines are that there should be no more than 
> five….
>
Thanks for pointing this out, we were told of this not so long ago,...
I would like to ask whether five is a rigid limit and whether exceptions 
may be granted (consider this a not-so-subtle request for exception...), 
given that this draft was the result of merging several drafts -- which 
explains the amazingly long list of contributors -- and authorship was a 
quite hard thing to agree on. OTOH I guess that if this policy really 
needs to be enforced, we will have to find a way (hopefully not 
involving dice)

Thanks for your feedback
Ramon