Re: RFC2418bis (was - Re: What is a "management position? [Last Call: <draft-farrresnickel-harassment-05.txt> (IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures) to Best Current Practice])

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 3/15/2015 1:08 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Ralph Droms and I recently undertook to bring RFC2418 up to current IETF
> practices.

To save further folk time and effort trying to compare RFC2418 with
draft--2418bis:

   0.  The document cites the 'nature' of the changes it made.  There is
no intent -- and I believe no content -- that changes any existing
practice; to the contrary the intent was to better document current
practice.

   1.  In textual terms, changes to the document are massive.  A diff
isn't possible.

   2.  No, I didn't maintain a log of specific changes.  Yes, that means
the document requires a completely fresh read.

   3.  The approach in making the changes had these goals:

   *  The previous document has a bunch of IETF tutorial material, as
background to the document's substance.  There is now more and maybe
better text the IETF uses.  We've replaced such text with pointers to
the other web pages and documents.

   *  The document expands upon various common and/or desirable
practices that are established in the IETF but possibly not treated as
thoroughly in the previous version.

   *  The document moves things around quite a bit, so that a newbie can
learn the meat of working group operation, separate from the surrounding
IETF formalities (bureaucracy). The intent is for the document to
function better both as introduction and for reference.

   *  The document adds information, such as pointers to new tools and
documents, that have become integrated into working group life.

   *  The document draws a line between what is formally required,
versus what is common or otherwise permitted.  So it teaches a 'core'
and then quite a few 'options'.

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net