Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact on the RFC series document production
Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 04 October 2019 17:42 UTC
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:42:20 -0500
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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Cc: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact on the RFC series document production
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:07:57PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > --On Friday, October 4, 2019 11:48 -0500 Nico Williams > <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote: > > We could design such a naming scheme and bolt it onto the > > existing RFCs, much like STDs have distinct (and stable) > > numbers from the RFCs that back them. > > > > E.g., we could have names like: > > > > STD-DNS-xx > > RFC-DNS-xx-vv > > > > STD-PKIX-xxx > > RFC-PKIX-xxx-vv > >... > > I won't try to spend the time today to explain why that would > cause a different set of problems other than to note that we Maybe you can try tomorrow then? I don't see any obvious problems. > often process documents that don't fall neatly into one category > and that would just cause other arguments and uncertainties. I don't see how that's an issue. Those can just get a plain ol' RFC number. > [...]. There were similar, earlier proposals for grouping > and status documents, as well as attempts to get more effort > into Applicability Statements with the same intent. All of > those efforts met the same fate: the IESG wasn't interested in > them or willing to initiate IETF Last Calls. And no one in the > community was willing to press that, e.g., by appealing the > IESG's non-action of WG Last Call requests, at least in part > because of concern that the appeal process would be damaging to > the community and that the IESG would, even if they were told to > rethink the decision, either reaffirm it or figure out other > ways to kill an idea they didn't like. Perhaps so, but a) the IESG is not an unchanging body, b) this seems like as good a time as any to bring this up again. If no one cares for this, then no one cares for this. Let's see. Nico --
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- Re: tone policing Paul Wouters
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- Re: tone policing Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: tone policing Ted Lemon
- Re: tone policing Randy Bush
- Re: tone policing Leif Johansson
- Agenda Denial Was: tone policing Phillip Hallam-Baker
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- Re: Agenda Denial Was: tone policing Paul Wouters
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- Re: Agenda Denial Was: tone policing Stan Kalisch
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- Re: Agenda Denial Was: tone policing Nico Williams
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- Re: New proposal/New SOW comment period John C Klensin
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- Re: New proposal/New SOW comment period John C Klensin
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- Re: New proposal/New SOW comment period John C Klensin
- Re: New proposal/New SOW comment period (off-topi… S Moonesamy
- Re: New proposal/New SOW comment period Sarah Banks
- Re: [IAB] New proposal/New SOW comment period John C Klensin
- Re: [IAB] New proposal/New SOW comment period Stephen Farrell
- Re: [rfc-i] [IAB] New proposal/New SOW comment pe… Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: "community" for the RFC series Brian E Carpenter
- Re: "community" for the RFC series (was: Re: [rfc… John C Klensin
- Re: [IAB] New proposal/New SOW comment period Christian Huitema
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- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Nico Williams
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- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Michael StJohns
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Christian Huitema
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Nico Williams
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Keith Moore
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… John C Klensin
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Nico Williams
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Leif Johansson
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Stephen Farrell
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Randy Bush
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Brian E Carpenter
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact o… Keith Moore
- Re: [rfc-i] "community" for the RFC series Henrik Levkowetz
- Re: "community" for the RFC series John C Klensin
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- Re: "community" for the RFC series Christian Huitema
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Christian Huitema
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Brian E Carpenter
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Stephen Farrell
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Keith Moore
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Christian Huitema
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Stephen Farrell
- Re: [IAB] "community" for the RFC series Colin Perkins
- Re: "community" for the RFC series Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: "community" for the RFC series Brian E Carpenter