Re: [precis] draft-whited-precis-test-vectors-00

"Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> Tue, 11 December 2018 19:58 UTC

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From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Cc: Sam Whited <sam@samwhited.com>, precis@ietf.org, Marc Blanchet <246aberdeen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [precis] draft-whited-precis-test-vectors-00
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On 11 Dec 2018, at 3:56, Martin J. Dürst wrote:

> On 2018/12/07 01:27, Sam Whited wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, at 10:12, Tom Worster wrote:
>>> First, I also think this work is valuable but I don't understand how 
>>> the
>>> ID is supposed to proceed. The point of bringing it to IETF is to 
>>> get
>>> its authority behind the statement that these specific vectors test
>>> conformance to the PRECIS RFCs. How can the IETF give this without
>>> restarting the WG to push the ID forwards as a Standards Track RFC? 
>>> I
>>> don't think the independent submission review process can.
>>
>> I don't really understand the process, but this makes sense to me and 
>> I think you're probably right. I'd be curious to hear if other IETF 
>> people who actually understand how any of this works agree or not 
>> though.
>
> Based on my past own experience, I understand some of this, but not 
> all
> of it. Besides Standards Track RFCs created by a WG, there's also the
> concept of a draft being sponsored by an Area Director for Standards
> Track. But this isn't used very much these days.

That's a possibility. It's not a lot of effort to try. Appears it's a 
matter of asking an Applications and Real-Time Area Director to sponsor 
it and advance it to IETF-wide Last Call. In the worst case the answer 
is that such a draft requires WG review.

Section 6.2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/precis/about/

Tom