On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:31 59PM, Martin Sustrik wrote: > Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: >> On 04/18/2010 06:58 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote: >>> Is there a standard way to publish a "call for discussion" memo? >> Yes, an internet-draft, perhaps containg prose such as "this draft is >> intended to initiate discussion. At this time, the author does not intend it >> to reach RFC status." >> A little later, a "BOF session invitation" serves some of the same purposes. > > Thanks for the info. I'm reading the documents to figure out how IETF process > works... > > So basically, you write an I-D, send it to RFC editor. It gets published, > people discuss it. Later on it expires and is removed.
Not quite -- the RFC editor gets involved only when the decision has been made to publish it as an RFC. You submit I-Ds via https://datatracker.ietf.org/idst/upload.cgi; as long as you meet the publication requirements (formatting, boilerplate, etc.) and don't name is as a working group draft without the consent of the chairs, publication is more or less automatic. After it appears, I'd advise you send a message to the appropriate mailing list -- a WG list, for example -- pointing it out to people. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
