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Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 25 July 2015 13:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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Hiya,

On 12/07/15 19:10, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> 
> Just as we elevated RFC 20 to STD, we could still elevate it to BCP -- a
> status that, IIRC, was just becoming available at the time RFC 1984 was
> published.

During the saag session in Prague we asked about this (more when I get
a chance to merge the good meeting notes we got). My conclusion from
that was that there seems to be a reasonable consensus among those who
were there and claimed to understand the issues to do as Carsten
suggests and there was almost no support for revising the text and
issuing a substantive update.

That means we try to upgrade RFC 1984 to BCP status in-place without
changes to the text or the RFC number.

I'm checking with the IESG and IAB to see if this plan causes them
angst and will report back in a week(ish) and take it from there. (So
get ready for, but please don't yet start, the potentially "fun"
process debate about the "C" in BCP - we'll undoubtedly do that in
an IETF last call;-)

Cheers,
S.

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