Re: Dealing with Design issues following Last Call

[Lucas Pardue <[e-mail]>]

Hey Dmitri,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 8:11 PM Dmitri Tikhonov <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Hi Lucas,
>
> Could you please clear something up for me:
>
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 07:22:33PM +0000, Lucas Pardue wrote:
> > * Path Challenge Padding and Amplification Protection -
> > https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/issues/4257
> >
> > We are preparing the QUIC documents and intend to cut a new set of drafts
> > for our Area Director, Magnus Westerlund, to take forward to the IESG.
> > Rather than issue a WG consensus call for the above design issues, we
> plan
> > to merge the associated PRs, mark the issues as "call-issued" and leave
> > them open until the IESG review period concludes.
>
> And then what?  In other words, should I implement the changes associated
> with 4257 or not?  The text is in transport-33, yet the issue is still
> open.  I take it to mean that this change is not as solid as it could be
> and it may be rolled back (otherwise, why leave the bug open?).  In this
> case, implementing this may end up to be a waste of time.
>

Draft-33 is effectively the proposed resolution to all issues opened during
the IETF Last Call. These are the documents that the IESG will review to
ensure we addressed last call comments. It's feasible, albeit hopefully
unlikely, that changes might be requested to the text that deals
specifically with those design issues. The IESG may also request other
changes as a result of their review, of course. The transport, tls,
recovery and invariants documents are on the agenda for the next IESG
telechat on 2021-01-07 [1].

I'd treat implementing draft 33 as trying to implement a PR before it was
merged, while the WG was running its late-stage process. There's a risk it
could change or be rolled back, it's upon implementers to decide if they
wish to bear that risk. I'll also highlight that draft 33 includes the note
"DO NOT DEPLOY THIS VERSION". That doesn't mean don't trial implement the
changes but it is a factor people should consider before investing effort
at this stage.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/iesg/agenda/

Cheers
Lucas