Re: [mile] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-mile-xmpp-grid-09: (with COMMENT)

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Hi Alissa,

Thank you for your comments.  Quick comments on a part of your review.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, at 4:24 PM, Alissa Cooper wrote:
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> Please respond to the Gen-ART review.

Yes, I will chase that.

> I'm not quite seeing what part of this is a standards-track specification. The
> workflow in Section 4 is described as "typical" but not normative and the
> exchanges listed in sections 5 and 6 are listed as examples. For a
> standards-track specification I would have expected something more like
> "Implementations of XMPP-Grid adhere to the following workflow ..." and for
> service discovery and pub-sub to be described as *the* way to do those things
> in XMPP-Grid, not just illustrated by examples. Otherwise this seems like it
> could be an informational document.

I need to discuss this with the WG, but I think I agree that the document needs an editorial pass to make sure that it is either purely Informative or that it clearly states extra requirements as suitable for a Proposed Standard.

Thank you,
Alexey