Re: [marf] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-marf-as-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

SM <sm@resistor.net> Thu, 26 April 2012 00:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [marf] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-marf-as-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Hi Benoit,
At 03:03 25-04-2012, Benoit Claise wrote:
>Let me ask a very basic question to everybody, including the other 
>IESG members: what is the goal of an Applicability Statement?

That was the question which comes to mind on reading the DISCUSS-DISCUSS.

>1. Explain how the technical specifications are used "in the wild", 
>as you mentioned. So a deployment experience document
>2. Or explain how the technical specifications should be used for 
>the different use cases (generally specified in a requirement document)
>When I read RFC 2026 section 3.2, I conclude for 2.

That section mentions Technical Specification.   The Applicability 
Statement was about restricted "domain of applicability" when using 
the Technical Specification.

One little quirk is:

   "An AS may not have a higher maturity level in the standards track
    than any standards-track TS on which the AS relies (see section 4.1).
    For example, a TS at Draft Standard level may be referenced by an AS
    at the Proposed Standard or Draft Standard level, but not by an AS at
    the Standard level."

There are a few other quirks.  Whether they are relevant or not 
depends on whether one wants to cherry-pick what's in RFC 2606.

Regards,
-sm