Re: [Iasa20] Magnus Westerlund's Discuss on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7776bis-02: (with DISCUSS)

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Magnus,
At 07:07 AM 04-09-2019, Magnus Westerlund via Datatracker wrote:
>I don't understand why not a replacement for RFC7776 was produced instead of
>this soup that is not readable. Publishing this in this form is providing very
>mixed messages to the community where we (IESG) apparently are aiming for
>readability and ease of comparing older and newer documents, but can't be
>bothered to ensure that is produced when it comes to the process documents.
>Also RFC 7776 appears to be very self contained and with removal of content
>that will be even more true.

I took a look at draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7776bis-02.  The document is 
equivalent the difference between two text files.  That difference, 
also known as a "patch", is in general not easily understood.

As a comment about procedures, the DISCUSS criteria is not ideally 
suited for non-technical documents.  There was an interesting comment 
[1] during the Last Call.  The comment was likely not addressed as it 
was not listed as an issue.

Several months ago [2], I provided a pointer to the RFC 7776 
procedures.  I'll probably do the same in future, if the need arises, 
as I don't think that a person who is not familiar with the arcanes 
of the IETF would understand this draft.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/OoEGZvw5Sb1Ngq0FFPVmK4KVwxw
2. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/naVOBpkJw0Ar-J-v55mKgttPKbU