Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-halpern-gendispatch-consensusinformational-02.txt> (IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus) to Best Current Practice

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 24 January 2020 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-halpern-gendispatch-consensusinformational-02.txt> (IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus) to Best Current Practice
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Friendly amendment:

> This document introduces no new security considerations. It is a process document about changes to the rules for certain corner cases in publishing IETF stream RFCs.

It seems to me that this document will potentially improve security. You could add:

However, it will prevent publication of IETF stream documents that have not reached rough consensus about their security aspects.

Nit:

Please be consistent about "stream" vs "Stream". For example,

>  ...namely the Independent Stream. Or, for research documents, the IRTF stream

is inconsistent.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 25-Jan-20 07:08, The IESG wrote:
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> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the
> following document: - 'IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus'
>   <draft-halpern-gendispatch-consensusinformational-02.txt> as Best Current
>   Practice
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>    This document proposes that the IETF never publish any IETF stream
>    RFCs without IETF rough consensus.  This updates RFC 2026.
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