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From: OPSAWG <[email protected]> on behalf of Eliot Lear 
<[email protected]>
Date: Friday, November 13, 2020 at 01:24
To: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
Cc: opsawg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] Red: RFC8907 (was: Re: Can we please adopt 
draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng?)

We need to back away from using bureaucratic process that will chase away 
developers for no good reason.  Do you think Guy Harris has the time or 
inclination to do this twice for no good reason?

Even broken as it was, TACACS+ was NOT an ISE document.  Neither was JSON.  
There is NO precedent for a spec we want to move forward as an IETF spec to go 
through the ISE.  If it’s within this group’s purview, we should take it.  The 
ISE is a relief valve, not a go to.  We would be misusing that process, and I 
would likely object to doing so.

If people insist that the document should be informational, fine, but even that 
is a lie.  This is an evolving de facto standard, and not recognizing it as de 
jure seems silly.  Worse, by forcing people down this road, we are doubling the 
amount of work to get to a proposed standard.  And for what?  Do we really 
think we’re going to change that much even in that process?  Looking back it 
was even silly for JSON to have gone through informational.  It was a waste of 
everyone’s time.  The final stage was what was important, and the mods were 
modest.

TACACS+ was different.  The IETF would not have endorsed TACACS+ in its current 
form, but having it written was important for both implementors and deployments 
to understand what they were seeing a lot of on the wire.

Recognize why the rules exist and use them appropriately.  This should go 
forward as a PS candidate.

Eliot


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