Background for those who may be unaware of GenART: GenART is the Area Review Team for the General Area of the IETF. We advise the General Area Director (i.e. the IETF/IESG chair) by providing more in depth reviews than he could do himself of documents that come up for final decision in IESG telechat. I was selected as the GenART member to review this document. Below is my review, which was written specifically with an eye to the GenART process, but since I believe that it will be useful to have these comments more widely distributed, others outside the GenART group are included.
This review was done as part of IETF Last Call. Review criteria: "Is this document a reasonable contribution to the area of Internet engineering which it covers? If not, what changes would make it so?" This draft is on the right track but has open issues, described in the review. Section 2.5 contains the following note: (Note: In pursuit of interoperability, it may be helpful to maintain a registry of query types and perhaps even of keys for use in XMPP query components. Given that such values will most likely be specific to particular applications of XMPP rather than core to XMPP itself, it seems reasonable that such a registry, if created, would be maintained by the Jabber Registrar function of the Jabber Software Foundation as described in [JEP-0053], rather than by the IANA. A proposal for creating such a registry can be found in [JEP-0147].) Given the importance of interoperability to the IETF, IESG approval of this draft should probably be delayed until that registry is functional so that the draft can document registration requirements for query components. This problem is ironically caused by XMPP's success in being used by multiple independent applications (e.g., list in Section 2.1), requiring a registry like this to prevent collisions among their use of URIs/IRIs. Nit - In Section 3.6 add "RFC " before "XXXX" and add an RFC Editor note to tell the RFC Editor to replace "XXXX" with the number of the published RFC and delete the note. Thanks, --David ---------------------------------------------------- David L. Black, Senior Technologist EMC Corporation, 176 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 +1 (508) 293-7953 FAX: +1 (508) 293-7786 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +1 (978) 394-7754 ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
