Eric - Base IS-IS spec is ISO 10589 - which does not fall under the jurisdiction of IETF. When IS-IS WG was formed in late 90's to address IP centric issues no authority was granted to the IETF to make changes to the IS-IS standard - so all RFCs were published as informational.
RFC 3563 documents a working agreement between ISOC/IETF and ISO/IEC which was put in place a few years ago which allows IETF to publish standards documents relating to IS-IS with certain agreed upon scope. As a result of that agreement many previously published RFCs are now being reissued as proposed standards - this document being one of them. Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 1:13 PM > To: Mike Shand (mshand); Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) > Cc: [email protected]; Ross Callon > Subject: Gen-ART Review of draft-ietf-isis-rfc3847bis-00.txt > > > I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer > for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see > http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). > > Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before > posting a new version of the draft. > > Document: draft-ietf-isis-rfc3847bis-00.txt > Reviewer: Eric Gray > Review Date: 27 June, 2008 > IESG Telechat date: 03 July, 2008 > > Summary: > This draft is ready for publishing as a Proposed Standard. > > Comments: > > As a point of curiosity, why were these documents not published > directly as Draft Standards? I am reasonably sure they would > qualify. > > I compared this document using rfcdiff against the original RFC > and found only minor stylistic changes (reference styles, format > of some bullets, etc.) and boiler-plate differences. Hence this > draft is as ready to be published as was the original RFC - i.e. > - quite ready. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
