On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 18.05.2026 14:42, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> As I said, i don't think this is addressing the primary problems with
> mapping specifications onto RFCs, which are much more about
> the ability to progressively revise than imposing some sort of
> meta-structure.
>
> I'd like to see us focus on that ability to progressively revise
> specifications.  Is that something we might want to grab a room to discuss
> in Vienna?  I'm thinking about the following:
>
I won't be in Vienna, but might be able to call in.


>    - What are the process limits?
>    - What are the tooling limits?
>    - Are the requirements of all levels of the stack the same?
>    - Related, what are the necessary interoperability requirements?
>
> I think there are actually a number of related issues:

- Non-semantic changes (editorial issues, errata, etc.)?
- Semantic changes that aren't really new versions (e.g., RFC 8446-bis,
which is largely a clarification of 8446, but does in fact contain new
normative text)?
- New versions

My put for non-semantic changes is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rescorla-rfc-jit/. I suspect we'd
need different processes for the other two.

-Ekr



>
>
> What I would like NOT to do would be to create the IETF version of the
> NPM/Pypi dependency mess.
>
> Even if we keep the process the same, can we improve other aspects, like
> how readers view errata or evolutions of works like TLS.  We've got another
> one coming: TEAPv2.  We don't need to rewrite *all* of TEAP, but rather
> do some incremental changes.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Eliot
>
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