Re: Status of this memo

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

> Il 27/04/2021 09:54 Lars Eggert <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> Hi,
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> On 2021-4-27, at 5:24, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > "Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts."
> > 
> > That's actually internally inconsistent and if the first sentence is quoted without the second, it is actively misleading when (say) an IRTF draft is concerned.
> > 
> > Shouldn't those two sentences be combined into a more accurate single sentence?:
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> > Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or of other associated groups or individuals.
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> thanks for the suggestion, Brian. I agree that this would be a clarification. I'll bring it up with the IESG. 

Was there ever any discussion of adopting a more specific formal name for IETF I-Ds, e.g. "IETF draft" ("IRTF draft" etc.)? "Internet-draft" could stay as a rarely used generic umbrella term, but if more precise terms come into common use, clarity will gain a lot. 

I am also thinking of the difference between adopted IETF drafts and individual submissions; that was completely lost on me until my first several months of active participation, and I am sure that almost all Internet developers and engineers out there miss it too, with the obvious consequence that any "Internet draft" is taken as an official IETF-sanctioned document. It would be better if there were clearly different terms in use for the two types of documents, even better if with different repositories, URL patterns etc.

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