Patrick, Thank you for your feedback. I don't see these drafts as meeting the description of 4.2.1 of RFC 2026, which states 'The "Experimental" designation typically denotes a specification that is part of some research or development effort'. The drafts certainly are not part of an R&D effort. They define concrete practices to address security or compliance issues in implementing the RFCs. The description in Section 5 of RFC 2026 for a BCP includes the reference to "is designed to be a way to standardize practices", which matches what is contained in the drafts. The other option is a Standards Track Technical Specification (TS) that includes "any description of a protocol, service, procedure, convention, or format" in RFC 2026, where these drafts could fall into the "procedure, convention" portion of the TS description.
I don't believe there is a dependency on the drafts being implemented widely for a long period of time for any of the tracks, including the BCP. -- JG James Gould Fellow Engineer jgo...@verisign.com <applewebdata://13890C55-AAE8-4BF3-A6CE-B4BA42740803/jgo...@verisign.com> 703-948-3271 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 Verisign.com <http://verisigninc.com/> On 9/9/20, 2:07 PM, "regext on behalf of Patrick Mevzek" <regext-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of p...@dotandco.com> wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, at 08:26, Gould, James wrote: > > Both draft-ietf-regext-unhandled-namespaces and > draft-ietf-regext-secure-authinfo-transfer are BCP drafts. We have > discussed the status of these drafts informally at prior REGEXT > meetings and more formally at the IETF-108 REGEXT meeting. Both drafts > don’t define protocol, but define operational practices of using the > existing EPP RFCs in a more secure or more compliant way. I believe > the drafts best match the purpose of a BCP. Please respond on the list > with your support for the BCP track or if you believe a different track > should be used for one or both drafts. I believe they both should be "Experimental" instead. They are not long term widespread "current practices" at all. As for "best" ones, I am still reserved. -- Patrick Mevzek p...@dotandco.com _______________________________________________ regext mailing list regext@ietf.org https://secure-web.cisco.com/1fo-40TgUtMNyaLZfhwQAczhAZI0Cq_66aqA7kCb2fhJFECNKUyrkQMZ6MHbDJtJxbEAkxSMdf2N8RqvTGVs1QZmqi_pe0iyjOZ2fyMa9ty7IU-ke7eYVdvgoYc0MDR_VuqiE-98Azn-5QjgkoJSRwVGloqG7nmhBp33XNC44XxZPAdOFNQ5rEGYKvhE84ukklWML2yXDjwmQQ54UVOP2CgWSSxrXY6R4VJ9LDa6rgkP24wkS3zSyQ7bLLXc7eNeGU-Ec-dzDmv4VYKL1FDLln8yT04Ic4hK1411WKzhh-b4/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fregext _______________________________________________ regext mailing list regext@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
