RE: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

We could certainly say this. It is a true statement.

However, the document is trying to talk about WG I-Ds, not to provide a general
description of everything the IETF and RFC Editor ever does.

Is it false to say:
   Documents under development in the IETF community are distributed as
   Internet Drafts (I-D).

In the context of this document, is it interesting to say:
  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.

My answers are "No" and "No".

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Russ
> Housley
> Sent: 03 December 2012 13:48
> To: IETF
> Subject: Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft
> 
> >> 	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