Re: [tcpm] Working group acceptance call for draft-touch-tcpm-2140bis

["Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE/Stuttgart)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

On Monday, there was substantial support in the room to adopt 2140bis and the chairs believe the WG consensus is to adopt this document. The open question is the status.

In the room, there was some support for a BCP but there is no clear consensus on that at this point in time.

The chair proposal is as follows. The following charter item will be added to the TCPM charter:

  "Submit 2140bis document to the IESG for publication targeting a Best Current Practice RFC" (target: November 2018)

This charter item would allow the working group to work on and discuss a BCP.
It would be up to the editors to convince the working group that the document content will warrant a BCP. The status would be reviewed during WGLC. If reviews would disagree with BCP status, a consensus call will be required and TCPM may decide to request publication as INFO instead, which would be a simple editorial change without wasting work. In a nutshell, there chairs want to highlight that is no automatism that this document would indeed get BCP status and the WG consensus can change. However, the chairs believe that we should not prevent a BCP at this point in time.

Feedback would be welcome. In absence of feedback chairs will ask the AD to add the milestone as suggested.

Thanks

Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE/Stuttgart)
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:07 AM
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> Subject: Working group acceptance call for draft-touch-tcpm-2140bis
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As requested by the authors, this e-mail starts a working group acceptance
> call for draft-touch-tcpm-2140bis-02, which will run on the list until June 30.
> 
> The proposal is to add a new milestone to the  TCPM charter and to use
> draft-touch-tcpm-2140bis as a starting point.
> 
> More specifically, the TCPM chairs look for community feedback on the
> target status. Two options for a charter milestone would be:
> 
> (1) "Submit document on TCP Control Block Interdependence to the IESG for
> publication as Informational RFC"
> 
> or
> 
> (2) "Submit document on TCP Control Block Interdependence to the IESG for
> publication as either Informational RFC or BCP; the status will be decided by
> working group consensus prior to the WGLC"
> 
> Note that RFC 2140 is informational. Feedback on the charter wording would
> be highly welcome.
> 
> It is understood that the document content requires significant further work
> and discussion in TCPM. The purpose of this adoption call is to check whether
> there is sufficient interest to discuss and further improve the document
> under change control of the TCPM working group.
> 
> If you believe that TCPM should work on a document in this space, and in
> particular if you are willing to review it, please reply to this e-mails. Please
> also speak up if you have any concerns or objections.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> TCPM cat herder