RE: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs
"Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s@rad.com> Mon, 21 April 2008 20:02 UTC
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Subject: RE: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:01:13 +0300
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All three categories are absolutely needed. It is self evident, although unfortunate, that the "accepted" category will be used. Even after WG, IESG, IETF LC, and the RFC editor, some errors make it through. From my experience with RFC errata, the "rejected" category will also definitely be used. I have seen some entirely erroneous comments (for example claiming that pseudocode for packet processing could not be correct since the loop over packets never terminates - the proposed fix was to decrement the packet size each time and terminate when the packet size reached zero!), and some pretty useless rewordings. Although we can quibble over the nomenclature, the "archived" category has several uses. One example is when the erratum submitter was not a WG participant, and truly could not understand what was intended (at least without the authors explaining what they meant). If the RFC is ever obsoleted by a newer one, this will serve as a reminder to rewrite that passage. Another example is when the RFC suggests a method to handle an exception, while a simpler method is inherent in the protocol itself. Y)J(S _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
- Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for … The IESG
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Marshall Eubanks
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Jeffrey Hutzelman
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Frank Ellermann
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Pekka Savola
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Jari Arkko
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Paul Hoffman
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Lisa Dusseault
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Paul Hoffman
- RE: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … David Harrington
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … John C Klensin
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Bob Hinden
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Bill McQuillan
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Russ Housley
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Paul Hoffman
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Sabahattin Gucukoglu
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Frank Ellermann
- RE: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Yaakov Stein
- Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata … Marshall Eubanks