I think this is a good and expedient suggestion. 

Dino

> On Nov 27, 2016, at 8:34 PM, Geoff Huston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am not fully aware of all the options here, but it strikes me that the IESG 
> could publish this document as EXPERIMENTAL, consistent with RFC6830, and in 
> the future whatever mechanism is used to update RFC6830 to Standards Track, 
> the same document could UPDATE this document and place it on the standards 
> track by virtue of the Update.
> 
> There may be other approaches as well, as this is _not_ an area where I would 
> call myself an “expert”!
> 
> regards,
> 
>  Geoff
> 
> 
> 
>> On 28 Nov. 2016, at 3:01 pm, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> You raise an interesting point Geoff.
>> 
>> The documents are experimental.  As such, it is reasoanble for this document 
>> to be experimental, and for it merely to require IETF RFC for assignment, 
>> without restricting it to Standards Track RFCs.
>> 
>> And while we are in the process of moving the LISP documents to Standards 
>> Track, that will take time.
>> 
>> However, I would like to be able to have the right status in the documents 
>> when we get the upgrade done.  We can do a revision of this document as 
>> well, but that seems to be creating work.
>> 
>> Any suggestions for how to thread this needly?
>> 
>> Yours,
>> Joel
>> 
>>> On 11/27/16 10:04 PM, Geoff Huston wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft.
>>> 
>>> The Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related
>>> drafts as they pass through IETF last call and IESG review, and sometimes
>>> on special request. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to
>>> the Routing ADs. For more information about the Routing Directorate,
>>> please see ​http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/rtg/trac/wiki/RtgDir
>>> 
>>> Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it
>>> would be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last
>>> Call comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through
>>> discussion or by updating the draft.
>>> 
>>> Document: draft-ietf-lisp-type-iana-03.txt
>>> Reviewer: Geoff Huston Review
>>> Date: 28 November 2016
>>> IETF LC End Date: not called
>>> Intended Status: Standards Track
>>> 
>>> Summary:
>>> 
>>> I have significant concerns about this document and recommend that the
>>> Routing ADs discuss these issues further with the authors and the IANA.
>>> 
>>> Comments:
>>> 
>>> Draft quality and readability.
>>> 
>>> The third paragraph of the Introduction is unclear. Given that LISP itself
>>> is an experimental specification it is hard to understand the distinction
>>> being made between the "experimentation purposes" and some other
>>> undescribed purpose which this reviewer can only conclude is also an
>>> experimentation purpose. I suggest re-thinking the intent of this
>>> paragraph and expressing it in simpler terms.
>>> 
>>> In section 2, the use of the normative "MUST" seems to be inappropriate,
>>> particularly when a non-normative "must" ius used in section 4 in an
>>> identical context.
>>> 
>>> Major Issues:
>>> 
>>> It seems anomalous to me that a request to set up an IANA Registry for an
>>> Experimental Protocol (RFC6830 is Experimental) is itself proposed to be a
>>> Standards Track document.
>>> 
>>> Furthermore, the document states that additional values be assigned via a
>>> Standards Action. Again, it appears anomalous to me that a specification
>>> of a parameter value of an experimental protocol be described by a
>>> Standards Track action.
>>> 
>>> If RFC6830 is revised and is re-published as a Standards Track
>>> specification then these points are of course not relevant, but until such
>>> a publication takes place, specifying an IANA parameter registry as a
>>> Standards Track action for an experimental protocol seems to me to be
>>> anomalous and should not proceed unless the IESG specifically agrees with
>>> this approach. Alternatively RFC5226 could be further revised to
>>> explicitly describe the guidelines as they relate to Experimental
>>> Specifications (as distinct from experimental allocations within Standards
>>> Track specifications), as this area appears to be unclear from my reading
>>> of RFC5226.
>>> 
>>> However it is not for me to resolve this issue, nor is it up to the draft
>>> authors, or the LISP working group, as far as I can tell.  It is up to the 
>>> IESG and
>>> IANA to clarify this situation and allow IANA to be given clear directions
>>> as to how to maintain parameter registries for experimental specifications
>>> while they remain experiments.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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