Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ietf-tcpm-persist-04.txt

"Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)" <ananth@cisco.com> Mon, 06 June 2011 17:40 UTC

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From: "Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)" <ananth@cisco.com>
To: Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com>
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Sorry about an inadvertent typo below :-

> Brain's point was that if we documenting an oversight then lets be

Should be :-

Brian's point was that, if we are documenting .....

-Anantha


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:29 PM
> To: Wesley Eddy
> Cc: SCHARF, Michael; Brian E Carpenter; draft-ietf-tcpm-
> persist.all@tools.ietf.org; General Area Review Team; David Harrington
> Subject: RE: Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ietf-tcpm-persist-04.txt
> 
> Hi Wes,
> 
> >
> > This document contains no protocol and alters no protocol.
> 
> But it documents (clarifies) a protocol action namely persist
> condition,
> FWIW.
> 
> >
> > I don't agree with attempting any comparison with RFC 6093.  That
RFC
> > changed the specification of the urgent pointer, whereas this
> > draft does not change the TCP specification one iota.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> >
> > It's hard to see how Standards Track is appropriate for this draft.
> 
> Well, if a document updates a standards track document, then I don't
> see
> any issues making the updating document a standards track.
> 
> >
> > I agree with Michael that "MUST" versus "must" should make little
> > difference to a reader; they'll get the point.
> 
> Brain's point was that if we documenting an oversight then lets be
> honest about it. In the same spirits, why do we want even change the
> "MUST" to must.. Just to make the document informational? Beats me..
> 
> -Anantha