Re: BCP97bis

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 7:29 AM Salz, Rich <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>    - At a minimum, authors/editors of source documents need to secure
>    freely available copies of the target documents for use by all anticipated
>    reviewers during the source document's life cycle, which includes working
>    group participants, any member of the community that chooses to participate
>    in Last Call discussions, area review teams, IANA expert reviewers, and
>    members of the IESG. The mechanism for acquiring access to those documents
>    is to be be specified in the shepherd writeup.
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> I understand the desire for everything that is defined by the IETF to be
> built on public freely available resources.  I think this goes WAY WAY WAY
> too far.
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> Can I buy a copy of a standard and require it to be postal mailed to
> everyone serially?
>

That's not what we're going for.  It's not an insistence that everything be
built on public, freely available resources.  However, reviewers -- from
the WG to the IESG and everyone in between -- need to be able to do their
reviews while having access to the normative references.  So this says
that, at a minimum, those resources need to be made available somehow
during the document's development, but there's no requirement for that to
continue in perpetuity.

The IESG has had multiple cases during my time there where we haven't had
access to some normative reference, and so we can't do our job.  This has
added long delays to document processing.  That's what we're trying to
address here.

-MSK