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Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Mon, 03 December 2012 13:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft
From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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>> 	Perhaps I did, but I am talking about Working Group Drafts
>> 
>> "1.1.  What is a Working Group Draft?
>> 
>>   Documents under development in the IETF community are distributed as
>>   Internet Drafts (I-D).  
> 
> Melinda and/or Randy have said what I want to say, but as a factual
> clarification to the draft, the above statement is only part of the
> truth. Documents under development in the IRTF are distributed as
> I-Ds, and so are documents about random subjects by random people,
> especially those intended as independent submissions to the RFC Editor.
> So a more complete statement is
> 
> Documents under development inside or outside the IETF community are
> distributed as Internet Drafts (I-D).

Even better:

The I-D repository is managed by the IETF Secretariat under the direction of the IESG, but the repository is used by the IETF, IRTF, IAB, and the broader Internet community to distribute documents.

Russ

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