Re: New Version Notification for draft-voyer-6man-extension-header-insertion-08.txt

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 23/11/19 07:23, Ole Troan wrote:
>>> What's the rationale for this document being "Informational"?
>>>
>>> Documenting how folks are breaking the spec?
>>
>> For that I think an Independent Submission is the only appropriate one. Anything in any IETF stream should either stick to existing specs or explicitly update them.
> 
> A whole session at the IETF meeting in Singapore was spent on the topic of header insertion in general and in the context of SR.
> Progress was made.
> I would encourage you to review that session.
> Video recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJU0m1EhjaI

I will review the session. That said, in the context that "decisions are
made on the mailing-list", and in the hope of fairness, shouldn't the
list be polled in that respect?



> My reading of the working group session was to proceed work on both drafts. With neither draft updating RFC8200.
> 
> Let's focus on communicating and understanding the positions of each "camp" and proceed with the technical arguments.
> I would discouarge "process arguments".
> If you believe those are necessary, please take those with the chairs and AD and we can summarize to the group.

My basic question/comment about process is, particularly given the
amount of discussion that the topic has received on the list: why take
action on the topic on the meeting, without polling the list?

I'm also curious about the rationale of working on a document that
violates a core spec. It looks to me as "we didn't get consensus to
update the spec, so now we just document how we're ignoring the spec".
Given the history we have had on this topic, I don't see the process
(making a decision at the session without polling the list) nor the
outcome (essentially publishing a doc that violates the spec as
informational) as a sensible outcome.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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