On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Alan DeKok <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also, just for clarification, your objection is that the proposed
> document is standards-track, and you want it to be informational? When
> reading your email it seems sometimes that you don't want this to be a
> OPSAWG document at all, sometimes that you don't want TACACS documented as
> an RFC at all, sometimes that your main objection is that there has been a
> procedural error.
>
>   My objection is all of that.  When people say "We want the draft to be
> standardized for reason X", I have objections to X.  For many versions of X.
>
> - there are procedural issues with WG adoption of the document
>
> - even if there were no procedural issues, the document violates IETF
> consensus as described in RFC 3127
>
> - even if there were no procedural issues or violation of IETF consensus,
> the document does not describe the stated use-case for why it's being
> adopted
>
> - even if none of the above happened, the functionality in the document
> overlaps 100% with RADIUS, and is therefore technically unnecessary
>
> - even if none of the above happened, the protocol could be sufficiently
> documented via publication as an information document, instead of a
> standards track document
>
>
>   For each reason individually, and for all of those reasons together,
> this document should not be a standards track document.
>
> > I want TACACS to become documented as an RFC, preferably all
> functionality currently in wide spread use. In your view, how do we get
> that done?
>
>   Publish it was an informational document, via an individual submission
> and AD sponsorship.
>


I do not have a dog in this hunt, but I agree with Alan that the "WG
standardization process"
should not be used to rubber-stamp or simply document a vendor protocol. It
should be
used where multiple competing documents are evaluated as a starting point
for the WG.

An AD-sponsored Informational RFC is the correct process if you want to
rubber-stamp
a document without a consensus-based process.



>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
Andy


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