Jeff and all, Does not moving to full standard require an implementation survey and posting its results as a draft (to be progressed to an Informational RFC)?
The example I have in mind is with LDP progressing to Draft Standard. The survey form has been issued in August 2002, and RFCs 5036 (LDP as a Draft Standard) and 5038 (2002 Survey results) have been only published in 2007, so it took quite some time:-). I know that IETYF tries to speed up the process - but does this mean that we can now skip the formalities of Implementation Survey? Regards, Sasha Office: +972-39266302 Cell: +972-549266302 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Rtg-bfd [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Haas Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:32 PM To: Marc Binderberger Cc: [email protected] Subject: Taking BFD to full standard (was Re: IETF 94 candiate minutes) Marc, On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:55:21PM -0800, Marc Binderberger wrote: > > [Jeff Haas]: BFD has been pretty stable for several years. We > > potentially can take BFD to full standard then. This needs to do > > errata, implementation reports, etc. Question to WG - do you think > > that BFD should be considered to be full standard? > > [Answer] > > 0 hands. > > [Jeff Haas] > > I will take the question to the mailing list. > > > Being a full standard, does this has any implications for BFD? Will > there be more IETF-hoops to jump through for future protocol work? Or > is it more a natural step for a stable "Proposed Standard" to be recognized > as a Standard? No additional hoops for future work. It is just recognition of stability. It should be noted that of all of the RFC series, there are less than 100 full standard document sets. But that said, part of the work of moving to full standard is taking care of any open issues in the specs. With regard to the based RFC 5880, this really covers two items: - Demand mode, no one implements this. - The M-bit, for multipoint. We're trying to get that implemented. :-) It's perhaps arguable that the fast authentication mechanism and the better cryptographic functionality drafts are part of the suite we'd want to take with us if we went to full standard. -- Jeff
