Re: [netmod] Suresh Krishnan's Discuss on draft-ietf-netmod-artwork-folding-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Thu, 05 September 2019 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] Suresh Krishnan's Discuss on draft-ietf-netmod-artwork-folding-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Hi Suresh,

Thank you for your review.  Comments below.

Kent // as co-author


> On Sep 5, 2019, at 10:41 AM, Suresh Krishnan via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
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> Suresh Krishnan has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-netmod-artwork-folding-09: Discuss
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> After some thought I think there are two things about this document that make
> me uncomfortable enough to ballot Discuss.
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> a) Due to its home in the netmod WG it is highly likely that people outside the
> yang community have not paid enough attention to this work. Since this is
> applicable to code fragments of all kinds, I think the home chosen for this RFC
> might have inadvertently limited input from the broader community.

Agreed.  The original I-D was targeted for IAB stream.  It wasn't going to be presented in NETMOD, but did (by coercion).  During the presentation I mentioned that its applicability was more than NETMOD and that it should go thru IAB, just like the "xml2rfc" RFCs (7749 and 7991).  The working group felt that it should stay in the WG and hence here we are.  :sigh:


> b) Given a) I think it is better that this document go forward as an
> Informational document rather than a BCP so that use of this technique becomes
> optional, without the force of a BCP behind it.

I'm okay with this, modulo my comment to Alissa.   Actually, if we only view the RFC as specifying a format then, in my mind, it doesn't actually contain the "best practice".  FWIW, SHOULD appears only once, in a sentence stating that folding SHOULD be automated, in a section titled "Goals".  That said, if not a BCP, then how to encourage people to use it, so that automation works?  For this reason alone, it seems that either the draft should be a BCP or Datatracker is updated to auto-fold as needed.  Perhaps  the right answer is to do Informational now and hope that Datatracker is updated in time?



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> I do agree with my Abstaining colleagues that this should probably not be on
> the IETF stream but I think the work is useful enough to go forward.

It should've been on the IAB stream.  Whether it should go forward, after having the BCP attribute removed, or re-run via the IAB stream is up to the IESG.


Kent // as co-author