> -----Original Message----- > From: regext <regext-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Niels ten Oever > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2018 3:07 AM > To: regext@ietf.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] "Considerations" Sections > > On 11/06/2018 09:01 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: > > Following up on the in-room discussion regarding Human Rights Protocol > Considerations as compared to Security Considerations and other types of > considerations that appear in IETF documents: > > > > I mentioned at the mic that we don't have any documents representing > IETF consensus that provide guidance for writing human rights protocol > considerations. It was mentioned that RFC 8280 describes such guidelines. > True, it does, but it's an Informational document that "represents the > consensus of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group of > the Internet Research Task Force". RFCs 3552 (Security Considerations) and > 8126 (IANA Considerations) are, in comparison, IETF BCPs. So, I'll stand > by my comment regarding the lack of _IETF_ consensus on the topic. > > Thanks Scott, as you know there are also Privacy Considerations, as > outlined in RFC6973, which also do not constitute community consensus but > are widely used. > > Furthermore, if something is not a community consensus, it doesn't mean we > MAY/SHOULD/MUST NOT do it.
True. It also does not mean that we MUST do it. As Jim Galvin noted, it's up to the editor and WG to decide how to address the topic. Scott _______________________________________________ regext mailing list regext@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
