Re: Status of <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16.txt> in AUTH48

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Mon, 13 February 2017 02:53 UTC

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From: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Subject: Re: Status of <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16.txt> in AUTH48
Thread-Topic: Status of <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16.txt> in AUTH48
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Hi Fernando,

> On Feb 12, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/12/2017 07:21 PM, otroan@employees.org wrote:
>> 
>> The main concern here is the change during AUTH48, more than the
>> exact change. Why the author chose to add this and has done with many
>> documents at this point in the process is unknown to me. 
> 
> I can comment on this one:
> 
> Typically, documents take too much energy, and I don't take care too
> much care about details, because documents change all the time. When it
> comes to Acknowledgements, the only "acks" that I typically keep up to
> date are those regarding folks that sent comments (because otherwise I
> forget and then it's a pain to remember or look up their names).
> 
> In AUTH48, it's the last chance to read the document, and I do a full
> re-read -- at times, it has been a long time since doing a full
> review... so for example I get to catch errors or editorial nits that
> have been there for a long time -- and that I just didn't find before
> because I was just doing patches to the document, rather than full reviews.
> 
> When a document is just about to be done, I also think of the people
> that provided help beyond the usual reviews, or implementations of the
> document that really made a difference, etc.
> 
> 
> e.g., in RFC6274 you can find:
> --- cut here ---
>   The author wishes to thank Alfred Hoenes for providing very thorough
>   reviews of earlier versions of this document, thus leading to
>   numerous improvements.
> [..]
>   The author would like to thank Randall Atkinson and Roque Gagliano,
>   who generously answered a number of questions.
> --- cut here ---
> 
> (besides the credits for the usual reviews).
> 
> in RFC7872, you can find:
> ---- cut here ----
>   The authors would like to thank Fred Baker for his guidance in
>   improving this document.
> 
>   Fernando Gont would like to thank Jan Zorz of Go6 Lab
>   <http://go6lab.si/> and Jared Mauch of NTT America for providing
>   access to systems and networks that were employed to produce some of
>   the measurement results presented in this document.  Additionally, he
>   would like to thank SixXS <https://www.sixxs.net> for providing IPv6
>   connectivity.
> ---- cut here ----
> 
> in RFC7217 you can find:
> ---- cut here ----
> 
>   The algorithm specified in this document has been inspired by Steven
>   Bellovin's work ([RFC1948]) in the area of TCP sequence numbers.
> 
> [...]
> 
>   Hannes Frederic Sowa produced a reference implementation of this
>   specification for the Linux kernel.
> ---- cut here ----
> 
> 
> In many (if not most/all) of these cases, the acks were added during
> AUTH48, when I just got the time to think about the people that had
> provided significative help/support.
> 
> It never crossed my mind that someone could have concerns with this. As
> a guy that reads RFCs, I couldn't care less about the Acks.

Either you care or you don’t. You cannot have it both ways. If you do not care about the Acks, I am not sure we are having this discussion and taking a chunk of everyone’s time.

> . could never
> have "concerns". So the stage at which these were added was never a
> factor -- i.e., not that I thought "oh, let's add these now so that
> nobody figures".
> 
> 
> My understanding is that the Acks are editorial changes, and not
> technical changes, so there was not even a need for the authors to agree
> on them.

The fact that you keep forgetting to mention is that the point is not about whether you need to agree with your co-authors on the acknowledgements. It is about all the authors signing off on the changes in AUTH48.

> 
> 
> 
>> This seems
>> to me to be in conflict with the working group's document ownership
>> and change control. (Of course you can argue that's also problematic
>> when the IESG edits documents without the working group's involvement
>> as well.)
> 
> Not just IESG.
> 
> It's quite usual for the RFC Editor to apply *lots* of changes on the
> technical content of the document, which at times change the technical
> meaning of the document.

Yes. And if one of the author’s doesn’t agree and another one cannot live without them, we will be having the same discussion about these changes.

Thanks
Suresh