(not speaking for the authors, just observing some... also not speaking as a co-chair)
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, t.petch <daedu...@btconnect.com> wrote: > I find this I-D problematic. The subject matter is of crucial importance, > comparable to, or perhaps more important than, IPv6, yet this I-D is not > an easy read and there should be one such somewhere. > I thought there was to be an overview doc as well produced, with the goal being to lay out the basic parts referring to the other drafts for further info/expansion. > sidr has produced an awesome collection of I-Ds (some now obsolete) but it is > not obvious, short of spending a few months in the archives, how they fit > together. Other major projects - snmp for example - produced an Introduction, > acting as a starting point and a road map to the other I-Ds and I think that > that should be a prerequisite for sidr. This I-D is not it (even if it could > be); its Normative > References include a further 80 pages of sidr I-Ds! > > One small example. The I-Ds have several references to RPKI and indeed, that > appears in -arch; but it first appears on page 8 and is not even expanded, let eh.. that's a nit that someone should file... "hey, you can't use an acronym for the first time without actually expanding it properly!" Can you cite the proper para/page/section on this so the authors can fix it? -Chris > alone explained. Of course you can turn to Wikipedia and you find a clear > explanation of what RPKI is but you should not need Wikipedia to understand > something as important as sidr. This I-D seems to be written to be understood > by those who understand it:-( > > Tom Petch > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "The IESG" <iesg-secretary at ietf.org> > To: "IETF-Announce" <ietf-announce at ietf.org> > Cc: <s...@ietf.org> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:14 PM > Subject: [sidr] Last Call: <draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11.txt> (An Infrastructure to > > >> >> The IESG has received a request from the Secure Inter-Domain Routing WG >> (sidr) to consider the following document: >> - 'An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing' >> <draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11.txt> as an Informational RFC >> >> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits >> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the >> ietf at ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-02-21. Exceptionally, comments may be >> sent to iesg at ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the >> beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. >> >> The file can be obtained via >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-arch/ >> >> IESG discussion can be tracked via >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-arch/ >> >> >> >> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: >> >> /ipr/1204/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > sidr mailing list > s...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
