I agree with Warren on this, as the chair he and I had several discussions
sorting out this situation,
and Mr Hoffman did the work in cleaning up the IANA registrations.
tim
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:13 AM Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:22 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Oct 18, 2022, at 7:58 AM, Ron Even <ron.even....@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 1. whis is this an informational RFC and not a standard track RFC.
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>> That's a reasonable question with a simple answer: because the WG changed
>> its mind on what the status of this protocol should be. RFC 5933 describes
>> a national standard that is thinly deployed. At the time, it was necessary
>> to have the protocol on standards track; now it no longer is required.
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> One or two people had also poked me off-list, asking if the process allows
> for an informational document to update a non-informational document. This
> appears to be fully allowed by process (and I had checked before advancing
> the document).
> I checked on a few documents which Update other documents, and here is a
> selection of prior instances where this was done.
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> RFC2026 - "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3" (BCP) was updated
> by both
> RFC7841 - "RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates" (Informational)
> and RFC3669 - "Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property
> Issues" (Informational)
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> RFC9120 - "Nameservers for the Address and Routing Parameter Area ("arpa")
> Domain" (Info) updates RFC3172 - "Management Guidelines \& Operational
> Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain
> ("arpa") (Best Current Practice)
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> RFC7722 - "Multi-Topology Extension for the Optimized Link State Routing
> Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2)" (Exp) updates both RFC7188 - "Optimized Link
> State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2) and MANET Neighborhood Discovery
> Protocol (NHDP) Extension TLVs" (Standards Track)
> and RFC7631 - "TLV Naming in the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Generalized
> Packet/Message Format" (Standards Track)
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> RFC7419 - "Common Interval Support in Bidirectional Forwarding
> Detection" (Informational) updates RFC5880 - "Bidirectional Forwarding
> Detection (BFD)" (Standards Track).
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>> 2. What is requested from IANA. ths text you wrote and I copied is not a
>> directive to IANA that is clear
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>> You are correct that the IANA Considerations section is quite unclear,
>> and needs to be clarified before the IESG considers it.
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman
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