RE: [Pppext] removing the milestones

James Carlson <> wrote:

> I've had a request to remove our stale milestones from the list.
I
> agree, and I'm sending mail to the AD and secretariat now. 
> 
> Essentially, we have a null list of goals and milestones at this
> point and are effectively dormant. 
> 
> Below are my notes on the existing list of milestones.  If you
have
> any interest in restoring these with new target dates, or would
like
> to have new milestones added, please speak up.  
> 
>> Dec 99	  	Advance AODI draft to Proposed Standard
> 
> There's been no activity on this draft in quite some time, and I
> don't expect it to end up advancing. 
> 
>> Dec 99	  	Advance CHAP (RFC 1994) to Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance Multilink (RFC 1990) to Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance LQM (RFC 1989) to Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance IPCP (RFC 1332) to Draft Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance CCP (RFC 1962) to Draft Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance ECP (RFC 1968) to Draft Standard
>> Dec 99	  	Advance PPP over ISDN (RFC 1618) to Draft
Standard
>> Mar 00	  	Advance LCP MIB (RFC 1471) to Draft Standard
>> Mar 00	  	Advance CHAP MIB (RFC 1472) to Draft
Standard
>> Mar 00	  	Advance IPCP MIB (RFC 1473) to Draft
Standard
> 
> These could be advanced, but it would take some minor work to do
the
> documentation necessary, and it's not clear that there's
substantial
> value in it.  

I find this an extremely interesting statement, esp. coming from a
WG chair.  You seem to be saying that there is doubtful value in
advancing a document beyond Proposed Standard, essentially
dismissing the most of the IETF standards process as irrelevant.
This is particularly interesting (and somewhat distressing) since
Draft Standard is, I believe, the only level that requires evidence
of interoperability...

> 
>> Dec 99	  	Add VLAN support to BCP (RFC 1638) and
recycle at Proposed
>> Standard 
> 
> This milestone has been achieved: RFC 2878 obsoleted 1638.

Hope this helps,

~gwz

Why is it that most of the world's problems can't be solved by
simply
  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel

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