On 2/18/16 7:18 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If the answer to the previous question is yes, should the RFC describing the
>> protocol itself (as opposed to any other document that might describe
>> appropriate use) be published as a standards track RFC?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> In my opinion, IETF standards track RFCs should be reserved for
> protocols for which further development is expected to occur primarily
> within the IETF framework. As I understand the situation (feel free to
> correct me if I'm wrong), TACACS+ is a vendor maintained standard,
> specifically Cisco. Regardless of publication, Cisco intends to retain
> control of the standard and its future development.

Assuming the document is split into to pieces here part of goal as I
understand it is address the issue of adding ssl to the existing
specification in an inter-operable fashion.

> If my understanding is correct, TACACS+ should not be presented as an
> IETF standards track RFC.
>
> I would remind folks that it's perfectly OK for a network protocol to
> be a standard without it being an _IETF_ standard.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 


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