Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-05.txt

Roger Jørgensen <rogerj@gmail.com> Thu, 15 December 2011 21:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-05.txt
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the end of my conversation is at
>
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg14948.html
>
> Summary: "an update that makes it easy for the implementer to find the changes is better."
>
> If it wasn't clear, I believe this document is technically done and needs
> to be advanced, but it does need editorial work as indicated above.

Hmm sorry for being unclear, the technical part looked okay as far as
I could tell, but as the quoted words from you, it will probably be
more confusing to have two documents where the last one update/change
the first one. Would be much better to have just one
replacing/updating the old one.



--- Roger J ---

>
> Also there was Dave's review:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg14984.html
>
> In IESG parlance that all seems like "new I-D needed" to me.
>
> Regards
>   Brian Carpenter
>
>
> On 2011-12-16 08:07, Roger Jørgensen wrote:
>> On Dec 15, 2011 7:32 PM, "Brian Haberman" <brian@innovationslab.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>     Unfortunately, the draft is in a limbo state at this point.  The WG
>>> Last Call ended about a month ago with zero comments or statements of
>>> support.  The chairs cannot advance this document without some show of
>>> support by the community.
>>>
>>>     I humbly request that members of the working group review this
>>> draft and post their comments, questions, and suggestions to the mailing
>>> list.
>>
>> Brian Carpenter said it all in this post:
>>
>> Message-ID: <4EB9D332.1040003@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:11:14 +1300
>> From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
>>
>> <snip>
>> Reading this document as a proposed standard, I think it will confuse
>> the reader. I think that what we actually need is a 100% replacement
>> of RFC 3484, that can be read on its own.
>> </snip>
>>
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