Re: Lack of responses on WG Last Calls

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Fri, 17 December 2010 13:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: Lack of responses on WG Last Calls
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On Dec 17, 2010, at 4:41 AM, Thomas Narten wrote:

> Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> writes:
> 
>> When we advance a routing protocol to Proposed Standard, for reasons
>> related to ancient IESG history related to routing, we generally
>> require a test report that shows interoperable implementations of
>> the standard in question.
> 
> And FWIW, I think that requirement expired and has long been OBE.
> 
> See RFC 4794 "RFC 1264 Is Obsolete"
> 
> While getting a routing/interoperability report is a fine thing to do,
> it is not and should not be a requirement to advance this (or any)
> draft to PS.
> 
> This draft should advance on its own merits (on which I have not
> opinion).

The fact is that the working group is trying to decide n something and Zigbee has relevant data. I'm simply asking for an appropriately-redacted version of the report to be made public.