Re: [sidr] Current document status && directionz

[Christopher Morrow <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Rob Austein <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I guess one question here is the purpose of publishing this document:
>
> a) If the purpose of asking the WG to publish is a hope that the WG
>    will agree that this is a good idea, then I'm with Randy and Steve
>    in the "hell no" camp.
>
>
(note, I do not care for this message about politics)

we're here because, I think, from the top down to the RIR there isn't a
hierarchy being created, right? the RIR folk are saying: "Ok, you all want
this thing, but upstairs hasn't created the root, so we're going to do the
best we can with making a root each that allows us to xfer between RIRs.
This is how it's being done, so you have some docs about the mechanics
involved and can build/guide from there"

is that not the case? (again, I don't care about the politics)


> b) If the purpose is to document something that the RIRs have
>    unilaterally decided to do whether the IETF likes it or not, I
>    guess we should thank them for documenting their intentions, and
>    publish it with a big IETF / IESG disclaimer saying that it's a
>    really bad idea but not something the IETF can prevent.  I suppose
>    we could refuse to publish entirely in this case, but suspect that
>    just makes it harder for newcomers to understand what happened.
>
> My understanding was that we were already well into case (b) territory.
>