Re: [Simple] draft-ietf-simple-presence-10.txt

[Jonathan Rosenberg <[e-mail]>]

Yes, it is still valid. This is a source of confusion for many people, 
as its an oddity in the IETF process (IMHO).

Once an Internet Draft is submitted to the IESG for consideration for 
publication as an RFC, the document will remain in the IETF archives 
until it is published as an RFC, even if the expiration date passes. In 
the case of draft-ietf-simple-presence, the document was approved for 
publication as RFC quite a long time ago (over a year!!). However, it is 
stuck in the RFC editor's queue due to document dependencies. In 
particular, IETF has a rule that says that document X cannot be 
published if it normatively references document Y and document Y hasn't 
been published yet. SIMPLE is dependent on PIDF, which is in turn 
dependent on draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis, which should be done shortly. 
Once the smime draft is done, the whole dependency chain is resolved, 
and the core simple specs (draft-ietf-simple-presence, the watcherinfo 
drafts) along with PIDF and the IMPP documents, can all get published.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Jonathan R.

Surya Gogineni wrote:

> Is draft-ietf-simple-presence-10.txt still valid? The doc indicates it 
> expires in July 2003. Is there any follow up doc for this?
> 

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