Hi Benjamin, On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, at 10:50 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > I will trim the purely editorial stuff, as the authors should be > able to handle that (and have already started, since the cipher > suite/hash+signature algorithm thing was already noted). > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:56:16AM -0700, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for > > draft-ietf-tls-iana-registry-updates-04: No Objection > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > COMMENT: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I support the idea behind this document. I have a few minor issues which I > > would like to discuss before recommending its approval: > > > > 1) In several places: > > > > "IESG action is REQUIRED for a Yes->No transition." > > > > Firstly, this should be "IESG Approval", not "IESG action" (according to RFC > > 8126). > > Sure, let's use the right term. > > > Secondly, are you saying that this is the ONLY way to transition from Yes to > > No? Surely, Standards Action should also be allowed in case there is no > > rush? > > Besides IESG is likely to prefer a document explaining the transition > > anyway. > > Is IESG Approval mutaully exclusive with Standards-Action? > My reading of 8126's: > > New assignments may be approved by the IESG. Although there is no > requirement that the request be documented in an RFC, the IESG has > the discretion to request documents or other supporting materials on > a case-by-case basis. > > is that a standards-track document could include an "IESG > Considerations" section that requests the IESG to effect the > transition.
I suppose this can work, but typically "IESG Approval" is used for exception cases, where here it is always used. I think "IETF Consensus or IESG Approval" is more natural way of phrasing the intent. > That is to say, while I have no objection to your proposed (idea > for) text, I also am not sure that it is qualitatively different > from the current text. Best Regards, Alexey _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
