[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Joel Halpern
While I am sure we will differ on the details, the approach you describe sounds like one I can work with. Thank you, Joel On 12/11/2024 8:38 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: Joel, Thanks for your note. I agree that there is a lot of variation in the demands of protocols and we should be trying to s

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:38 AM Michael Richardson wrote: > > Eliot Lear wrote: > > deadwood-lear-widget-update-protocol, and as you wrote below, > appropriate > > boiler plate is applied. Something along the following lines: > > > “This document was previously an Internet-Draft, w

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
Joel, Thanks for your note. I agree that there is a lot of variation in the demands of protocols and we should be trying to support the needs of different communities within the IETF (I think that's what you are saying, at least!). Re a blanket rule: I think it would be bad to retroactively chang

[rfc-i] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Alan DeKok writes: > IMHO, reality trumps wishful thinking. If it is the official > position of the IETF that vendors shouldn't claim compliance with an > Internet Draft, then perhaps the IETF should ensure that useful and > implemented Internet Drafts are (a) published as an RFC +1 If the p

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Alan DeKok
On Dec 10, 2024, at 8:55 PM, Salz, Rich wrote: > In the spirit of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, further > quoting from 2026: > > * Under no circumstances should an Internet-Draft* > * be referenced by any paper, report, or Request-* > * for-Proposa

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Salz, Rich
>but the fact remains that "the way things are arranged here" is *different* >from what is described in our founding process document. And it's just weird >that we don't update that document to formally permit what we actually do. As of the last IETF, we have proposed documents for revising 2026

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Watson Ladd
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:48 AM Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > On 12-Dec-24 02:27, Carsten Bormann wrote: > > On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear wrote: > >> > >> For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments to > >> drafts than I do with drafts not being considered work

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 12-Dec-24 02:27, Carsten Bormann wrote: On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear wrote: For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments to drafts than I do with drafts not being considered working documents. I believe the magical solution to all this is: Make no chang

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Michael Richardson
Jean Mahoney wrote: > [JM] The RPC does assess links for long-term stability and will ask authors > if there is an alternative available if the link does not look stable (e.g., > it's linking to a personal site). > Copies of outlinks are saved through Archive-It.org. Links are

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Michael Richardson
Eliot Lear wrote: > deadwood-lear-widget-update-protocol, and as you wrote below, appropriate > boiler plate is applied.  Something along the following lines: > “This document was previously an Internet-Draft, was not accepted for > publication as an RFC, and has not been shown t

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Michael Richardson
Salz, Rich wrote: > I don’t know about that. The general population seems unable to tell > the difference among the various RFC streams, as well as drafts and > not. ha. Very cynical ha. > But if necessary, one possible fix is this: } It is inappropriate to use Internet-Dra

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Jean Mahoney
Hi all, On 12/11/24 2:56 AM, S Moonesamy wrote: Hi John, Carsten, At 11:48 AM 10-12-2024, Carsten Bormann wrote: On 2024-12-10, at 13:52, John Mattsson wrote: > >   • Internet-drafts are obviously "permanent and readily available", I don't see why that is debated. For registries wanting

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
>> The way things are arranged here kind of works, even if ugly in come >> corners, and nobody has yet come up with a proposed change that would >> actually improve the outcome. >> > On 2024-12-11, at 15:01, Eric Rescorla wrote: > Rather, nobody has come up with a proposed change that can get

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Behcet Sarikaya
+1 to status quo. Behcet On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:40 AM Salz, Rich wrote: > > I believe the magical solution to all this is: > > +1 > > > ___ > saag mailing list -- s...@ietf.org > To unsubscribe send an email to saag-le...@ietf.org > ___

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread to...@strayalpha.com
Hi, all, > On Dec 11, 2024, at 7:33 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > You and I may be thinking along the same lines. The issue for me is whether > or not a work is in its terminal state. I was thinking the easiest way to do > this was to have an author click a button to shift the work

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Salz, Rich
> I believe the magical solution to all this is: +1 ___ rfc-interest mailing list -- rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org To unsubscribe send an email to rfc-interest-le...@rfc-editor.org

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Mike, You and I may be thinking along the same lines.  The issue for me is whether or not a work is in its terminal state.  I was thinking the easiest way to do this was to have an author click a button to shift the work from "internet-draft" to something like "deadwood".  So draft-lear-wi

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Michael StJohns
On 12/11/2024 7:56 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Eric, On 11.12.2024 13:26, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM Eliot Lear wrote: And this is where we run into problems, because the moment you change that boiler plate, you will devalue the RFC series and create support

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Joel Halpern
I think there are a couple of aspects in EKR's note.   It seems likely that there can be WGs with approaches and clarity enough to know when a code point is sufficiently well-defined by the then-current I-D.  But that is by no means universal.  There also may be protocols that are sufficiently

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 4:56 AM Eliot Lear wrote: > Eric, > On 11.12.2024 13:26, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM Eliot Lear wrote: > >> And this is where we run into problems, because the moment you change >> that boiler plate, you will devalue the RFC series and crea

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 5:27 AM Carsten Bormann wrote: > On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments > to drafts than I do with drafts not being considered working documents. > > I believe the magical solution to all

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear wrote: > > For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments to > drafts than I do with drafts not being considered working documents. I believe the magical solution to all this is: Make no changes. The way things are arranged here k

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric, On 11.12.2024 13:26, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM Eliot Lear wrote: And this is where we run into problems, because the moment you change that boiler plate, you will devalue the RFC series and create support and interoperability problems as people en

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM Eliot Lear wrote: > And this is where we run into problems, because the moment you change that > boiler plate, you will devalue the RFC series and create support and > interoperability problems as people end up implementing different versions > of a specification.

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-11 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi John, Carsten, At 11:48 AM 10-12-2024, Carsten Bormann wrote: On 2024-12-10, at 13:52, John Mattsson wrote: > > • Internet-drafts are obviously "permanent and readily available", I don't see why that is debated. For registries wanting RFCs there is "RFC required". I am against any