Re: Last Call: <draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt> (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

SM <sm@resistor.net> Wed, 04 September 2013 00:00 UTC

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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:28:23 -0700
To: Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com>
From: SM <sm@resistor.net>
Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt> (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice
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Hi Pete,
At 16:02 03-09-2013, Pete Resnick wrote:
>OK, does this do anything for anyone?
>
>    Finally, RFC 2026 [RFC2026] section 6.1.3 also calls for the
>    publication of an "official summary of standards actions completed
>    and pending" in the Internet Society's newsletter.  This has also not
>    been done in recent years, and the "publication of record" for
>    standards actions has for some time been the minutes of the IESG.
>    [IESG-MINUTES] Therefore, that paragraph is also effectively removed
>    from section 6.1.3.

I suggest using "IETF Announce mailing list" as the "publication of 
record".  The mailing list probably has a wider readership and anyone 
can subscribe to it.  The usage of the mailing list is also 
consistent with other parts of RFC 2026.

Regards,
-sm