Re: [PWE3] fc-encap draft: Forthcoming reference changes

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

David,

Thanks much for the update and keeping on top of this.

Cheers,
Andy

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:32 AM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> This is a heads-up that the editing changes needed to get
> draft-ietf-pwe3-fc-encap
> published are going to be a little more involved than I've lead the WG to
> expect
> in the past.
>
> A reminder of the situation: The Fibre Channel pseudowire (FC PW) is
> specified by
> a pair of related specifications, the IETF fc-encap draft, and an FC-BB-*
> spec from
> INCITS T11 (the Fibre Channel standards body).  When we got the fc-encap
> draft
> finished, we found ourselves badly out of sync with T11 - the draft
> contains a
> normative reference to [FC-BB-6] which will not be published as a standard
> for a
> while to come (2013, maybe).  As a result, the fc-encap draft has been
> stuck in
> reference wait at the RFC Editor (all other editing is done) for most of a
> year.
>
> In order to deal with this situation, T11 has prepared a new standard that
> contains
> their portion of the FC PW spec, FC-BB-5 Amendment 1 [FC-BB-5/AM1].  That
> standard
> has now cleared its final technical approval stage and can be normatively
> referenced
> (will be actually published in the next few months, but all the stages
> from here are
> entirely procedural).  The original plan was to simply change the
> normative [FC-BB-6]
> reference in the fc-encap draft to [FC-BB-5/AM1], but ...
>
> FC-BB-6 is a large specification that includes other FC encapsulations in
> addition
> to the FC-PW.  In contrast, FC-BB-5 Amendment 1 has been cut down to just
> the FC PW
> material.  In looking at the fc-encap draft, I've discovered that FC-BB-6
> is cited
> both normatively and informatively in the text - the normative citations
> are for
> the T11 portion of the FC PW, whereas the informative citations are for
> other FC
> encapsulations (e.g., FCIP).  Therefore what I intend to do is:
> - Move the existing [FC-BB-6] normative reference to an informative "work
>        in progress" reference.
> - Add a new normative reference to [FC-BB-5/AM1]
> - Examine every current citation of [FC-BB-6] to determine whether it is
>        normative for the FC PW (and needs to be changed to [FC-BB-5/AM1]
>        vs. informative for other encapsulations (and needs to remain as a
>        citation of [FC-BB-6].
> The resulting editing instructions will take a bit of time to prepare, but
> should
> go to the RFC Editor sometime this week.
>
> Thanks,
> --David (as one of the editors of the fc-encap draft, and T11's liaison to
> IETF).
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