Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

---- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: <ietf@ietf.org>
Cc: <iab@ietf.org>; <iesg@ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

> IETF Chair skrev:
> > Dear IETF Community:
> >
> > Due to a lot of hard work, the RFC Editor is publishing approved
> > Internet-Drafts more quickly.  Overall this is just what we want to
> > happen.  However, I am concerned that the RFC Editor is might be getting
> > too quick.  Anyone can appeal the approval of a document in the two months
> > following the approval.  In the past, there was not any danger of the RFC
> > Editor publishing a document before this timer expired, and the only
> > documents that became RFCs in less than 60 days were the ones where the
> > IESG explicitly asked for expedited processing.  The recent improvements
> > by the RFC Editor make it likely that all documents will be moving through
> > the publication process in less than two months.
> >
> My short reply: Bad idea.
>
> In my opinion, placing such a hold on documents is a triumph of process
> over sanity.
>
<snip>
> Such a hold is a dumb idea, and we shouldn't do it. Just publish, and if
> we turn out to have made the wrong decision, make a public statement
> saying that; one form of public statement is leaving a hole in the RFC
> Index.
>

I recall a recent occasion when the IESG withdrew its approval, for
 draft-housley-tls-authz-extns
a document that both before and after its approval generated a lot of heat,
within and without a WG.

Presumably the expedited process would, or at least could, have seen that
published as an RFC.

With that example in mind, a 60 day hold seems rather a good idea.

Tom Petch

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