On 10 Apr 2017, at 7:38, Ralph Droms wrote:
I see that draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08 gives the intended status of
the document as Informational, while it is listed in the datatracker
as "In WG Last Call: Proposed Standard".
There are arguments in favor of each status. The relevant text is in
section 5 of RFC 6761:
An IETF "Standards Action" or "IESG Approval" document specifying
some new naming behaviour, which requires a Special-Use Domain Name
be reserved to implement this desired new behaviour, needs to
contain
a subsection of the "IANA Considerations" section titled "Domain
Name
Reservation Considerations" giving answers in the seven categories
listed below.
Publishing draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08 as Proposed Standard meets the
"Standards Action" requirement. However, Proposed Standard may not be
appropriate for draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08, as the document does not
specify a new protocol, as such. draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08 does
specify certain behaviors for components of the Internet, which could
be thought of as providing for interoperability so that Proposed
Standard status would be appropriate.
On the other hand, publishing draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08 as
Informational would require an "IESG Approval" document to meet the
requirements of RFC 6761. A short sentence added to
draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08 is likely all that would be needed, to the
effect of "The IESG has reviewed this document and approves of the
request to add .alt to the Special Use Domain Names registry."
In any event, in my opinion the WG needs to express its explicit
consensus about its choice of intended status for
draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08.
Given that most people don't understand the difference between levels,
it would take less explanation to make this Standards Track to meet
"Standards Action" in RFC 6761. But if people want to leave this as
Informational, I agree with Ralph that a sentence like he has given
(probably at the end of the Introduction) would be needed for clarity.
--Paul Hoffman
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