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Re: [DNSOP] Role of informational RFCs Re: DNSOP Call for Adoption draft-vixie-dns-rpz

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Wed, 21 December 2016 21:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Role of informational RFCs Re: DNSOP Call for Adoption draft-vixie-dns-rpz
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:04:38AM -0500,
 Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 54 lines which said:

> If the question is “Does the existence of an Informational RFC mean
> people will think the IETF is endorsing or promoting a technology or
> practice, and are they more likely to use it as a result?” the
> answer is pretty subjective and tends to be “It depends”— on the
> technology, on whether the document includes warnings about
> shortcomings and side effects, [...]

OK but, precisely, there is no such warning in the current draft.

Publishing a document without warnings and saying "we did not endorse
it, we just published a description" seems to me on the verge of
hypocrisy.

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