Re: [Tsv-art] TSV-ART Telechat review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc1981bis-04

FWIW, I was thinking of an update that focused on the description issue
below.

Nothing functionally would change.

Joe

On 3/18/2017 9:03 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
> I may not be answering the question Joe asked, but ...
>
> On Mar 17, 2017 19:36, "Joe Touch" <touch@isi.edu
> <mailto:touch@isi.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 3/17/2017 4:31 PM, Bob Hinden wrote:
>     > Joe,
>     >
>     > I think this will be up to the AD and IESG.
>     OK - I'll wait for them to respond.
>     > If you (and others) want to work on a major update, I am happy
>     to share the XML.  I hope we don’t end up with can’t move the
>     current document forward, and no one wants to do a major update.
>     I'd certainly prefer to have this doc address these issues.
>
>     One question - if a major update occurred, would that be at the same
>     standard level? If so, and if these issues are of concern, I'd be glad
>     to take that on.
>
>     If a major rev is a standards-level setback, that would be less
>     useful.
>
>     I'd like to hear their views...
>
>
> So, RFC 1981 is a Draft Standard, which is theoretically a bigger deal
> than a Proposed Standard. If a replacement to RFC 1981 doesn't work
> the same way that RFC 1981 works, I don't see how it would also be a
> Draft Standard, based on the standards level of the RFC it would be
> replacing. Do others see something I'm missing?
>
> However.
>
> Assuming that a replacement for RFC 1981 Path MTU Discovery doesn't
> have the issues we've been talking about in these threads, I would
> hope that we could publish that replacement at Proposed Standard (not
> at Experimental).
>
> Given that we don't use the Draft Standard level for advancing
> standards track RFCs any more (post
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6410/), would publishing a
> replacement that works better than RFC 1981 at Proposed Standard be a
> bad thing?
>
> Curiously yours,
>
> Spencer
>
>
>     Joe
>
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