Valery Smyslov writes: > 1. Section 1.6 Requirements Terminology is placed far from the begining > of the document and all the requirements words, along with terms > from RFC4301 etc. are used before they are formally introduced. > I don't think it is appropriate for standards track document. > I suggest to move this section before Introduction.
We had this discussion twice when we were making RFC5996 ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg03051.html and http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg04526.html ). The fist of this emails (Yaron's notes) caused ticket #51 to be opened: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/ipsecme/trac/ticket/51 And the resolution for that ticket #51 was closed as "wontfix" and with comments: > There is no other good place to do this without messing up the section > numbering. > > This is too difficult to do well, and it really isn't that important. And I think that same thing holds still. The problem is that there are lots of people who refer to the IKEv2 specification by section numbers, and if we change those that will cause all those references to be invalid, which might cause confusion. For the second email there was much bigger reordering of the sections suggested, and looking at the email exchange people were in favor of it, but then nothing was changed. There is nothing on the list about this, so it might be it was discussed in the IETF meeting. Anyways we decided against this last time, so I will not be doing this change unless I get more support for this from the WG, and I agree with #51 resoluton, that there is no other good place to do this without messing up the section numbers. -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
