Re: [rtcweb] References to -overview (Re: Unresolved normative references in IETF RTCWEB WG documents)

"Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com> Thu, 22 August 2013 18:22 UTC

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From: "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com>
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Thread-Topic: [rtcweb] References to -overview (Re: Unresolved normative references in IETF RTCWEB WG documents)
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] References to -overview (Re: Unresolved normative references in IETF RTCWEB WG documents)
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On Aug 18, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:

> On 08/15/2013 11:03 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote:
>> I've taken a look at the unresolved normative references in all of the current RTCWEB WG work items.  Here are some comments. 
>> 
>> Overall comment
>> 
>> Several of the documents (draft-ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage, draft-ietf-rtcweb-security) have a normative reference to draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview, while others do not (draft-ietf-rtcweb-audio, draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel, draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-protocol, draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-arch).  While it probably makes sense for some documents to reference an overview of WebRTC, the overview document also functions as an overview of work relating to WebRTC, so that it has 9 unresolved normative dependencies.  The effect of a normative reference to the overview document is therefore to delay publication until all of the overview normative dependencies are resolved.  I am therefore wondering whether the normative references to the overview document are really necessary, or whether the dependencies shouldn't just go one way (e.g. from the overview to the other docs). 
>> 
> In my opinion, the normal case should be that references to -overview are informative, not normative. Documents should be published when they're ready.
> 
> Most likely, the proper form is something like "This document specifies a protocol intended for use within the WebRTC effort, but is not restricted to that context. An overview of the WebRTC effort is given in [OVERVIEW]".
> 
> Or something like that.
> 

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