Re: Lack of responses on WG Last Calls

Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Fri, 17 December 2010 12:40 UTC

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To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Lack of responses on WG Last Calls
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Comments: In-reply-to Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> message dated "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:55:40 -0800."
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:41:43 -0500
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
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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See RFC 4794 "RFC 1264 Is Obsolete"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).

Thomas