Elwyn, > Maybe somebody ought to write a very short I-D just to set the record > straight.
It looks like there was at least one attempt to do that; see: http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-newman-netw ork-byte-order-01.txt I don't know the status of this effort, and I don't know whether there would be support to revive it. But, this subject seems to to fall within the auspices of the (unwritten) "IETF Reference Architecture". I sent a note to the IAB a while back asking why there wasn't a "Terminology of the IETF" reference document (i.e., one that defines common terms like "link", "node", "host", "router", etc.). But, the more I think about it, the more I think that this would be counter-culture to the way the IETF works. IMHO, the "IETF Reference Architecture" exists, but it is documented in a "bottom-up" fashion and is fragmented across the standards-track RFCs. To bring the fragmented pieces into a single document that captures the IETF architecture would seem like a worthy goal, but would it be acceptable to the "Tao" of the IETF? Do we need a more detailed and unified "IETF Reference Architecture" document, or are existing documents like RFC1958 enough? Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
