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Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-bberry-pppoe-credit-04.txt

James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> Wed, 04 January 2006 13:46 UTC

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:46:07 -0500
From: James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-bberry-pppoe-credit-04.txt
In-Reply-To: Brian E Carpenter's message of 4 January 2006 14:15:37
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Brian E Carpenter writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> ...
> > (And since the IETF operates an Informational RFC vanity press ...)
> 
> Not quite. Independent submissions to the RFC Editor are by definition
> not part of the IETF process.

True ... but my point is that no all readers of RFCs manage to notice
the difference, so the effect is that the review status isn't clear
(and may well be "none").

The original PPPoE RFC 2516 was just such an independent submission
(draft-carrel-info-pppoe-02) and was primarily designed in the ADSL
Forum, not the pppext working group.

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