Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnbis-ns-reg-transition-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 07 August 2017 00:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnbis-ns-reg-transition-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Dear All, On 08/05/2017 04:15 PM, Adam Roach wrote: > On 8/3/17 7:49 AM, John C Klensin wrote: >> Sadly, I don't think I was overreacting. Consequently, unless >> this DISCUSS can be resolved in some other way today, I will >> submit a formal appeal against your use of a blocking DISCUSS on >> an essentially editorial matter that puts form over substance >> and that is abusive of working group decisions and the Last Call >> and IESG review processes. > > > John -- > > Thanks for sharing your rather extensive thoughts on this topic. I > apologize that I was unable to meet your deadline of "today," as I was > physically located in a part of the world that had limited to no data > connectivity by the time you had sent it. > > As Martin points out, I'm still rather junior at this position, and > have been led to believe that the Discuss Criteria > <https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html> has some > fundamental authority to it. You will note, for example, that the > DISCUSS ballot I entered was carefully selected, in a word-for-word > fashion, from that document. I'm also under the impression that the > current version of the ID-Checklist > <https://www.ietf.org/id-info/checklist.html>, having had extensive > discussions on the IETF mailing list, is a reflection of IETF > consensus regarding the form and format of documents to be turned over > to the RFC editor. Interpreted that way, I have concerns that I would > be derelict in my duties if I allowed an author to unilaterally ignore > guidance that has received IETF-wide review. I'll return to this in a > moment. > > I do very much appreciate that you had already formulated a compromise > proposal with the intention of sharing it at some point. I find your > intended formulation (as hinted by the snippet you included) to > satisfy both word and spirit of the ID-Checklist provision for > abstracts to indicate document obsoletion. > > At the same time, you have raised a host of collateral points of > interest regarding the provenance and maintenance of Discuss Criteria > and ID-Checklist. If we had a common understanding of their authority, > then the path forward would be clear: if these documents are merely > advisory and have no power to bind, then I'm free to concede the point > and allow you to push forward with a document that does not conform to > their contents -- and would likely do so at this point. Alternately, > if they are expected by the IETF community to be binding, then it > would seem my duty to assist in their enforcement. We could hold the > publication of this document until we were able to resolve which of > these two situations is true, but it seems a mild disservice to the > URNBIS working group to do so. > > In an attempt to avoid delaying this document unnecessarily, I propose > the following path forward: > > 1. You provide your aforementioned compromise text to Alexey (in his > role as sponsoring AD) for inclusion as an RFC Editor Note, and I > will clear my DISCUSS position. > > 2. As a tactical matter, you propose to the IESG a set of > administrative updates to the ID-Checklist document reflecting > those areas you believe it has fallen out of maintenance (e.g., > the reference to an older version of the RFC style manual). I > would expect these to be mechanical and uncontroversial to apply. > > 3. As a strategic matter, you or we begin a conversation with the > IETF community at large regarding the provenance and authority of > the Discuss Criteria and ID-Checklist documents. I do not want to > presuppose the outcome of those conversations, so I suggest no > specific potential conclusions. I'm happy to help you with > formulation of the question, if you'd like, but I don't feel > compelled to insert myself in doing so if you'd prefer to ask in > your own terms. > > 4. Subsequent to conclusion of that conversation, and contingent on > its outcome, we begin a conversation with the IETF community at > large regarding the ambiguities you perceive as being present in > the ID-Checklist so that we can more precisely reflect an IETF > consensus position in its contents. > It may be helpful to note that I would support this resolution, or something like it. There are other resolutions that I would also support, of course. If I might offer what I hope is a friendly amendment to Adam's proposal, I wouldn't mind seeing a list of the updates named in (2) before asking people to develop actual update text. And thanks for making that proposal. Spencer
- [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-urn… Adam Roach
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf… Adam Roach
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf… Adam Roach
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… Martin J. Dürst
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… Adam Roach
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… Spencer Dawkins
- Re: [urn] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-urnb… Alexey Melnikov