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Re: [core] [Anima] documenting SID usage in IETF specification

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 11 September 2018 23:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] [Anima] documenting SID usage in IETF specification
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    >> SHOULD ietf-core-sid say something about this?

    > Yes, we should have a common way of handling SID allocations in RFCs.

It's not just allocations, but presentation.

    > draft-ietf-core-sid sounds like a natural way to place this, but what
    > goes into what document is often a question of who has time to write
    > something at a particular point in time.  So let’s discuss this with
    > the authors.

agreed.

    > In any case, this probably should stay at the level of a suggestion
    > more than prescribing a normative way of doing things — the conventions
    > we use for this may evolve faster than the rest of the technical
    > content of draft-ietf-core-sid.

I don't want a prescription either, but rather a BCP that evolves.

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