Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-03-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
When considering the Last Call comments, the IESG finally concluded that this document should be published as an ION. Other Last Call comments will result in editorial changes. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-21 Thread Brian Carpenter
This last call technically expires today. Since there were objections to only holding a two week last call, it won't be on the IESG agenda before March 8, and comments on the substance are still most welcome. I will be asking the IESG to consider whether it should be published as an ION rather

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-14 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. I will get to substance in a separate note, and hope others will also. In the interim, two procedural remarks... (1) This document and draft-klensin-rfc-independent-05.txt describe two pieces of the how a document that does not originate in a WG may be reviewed and published space. Each

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, Don't they also set the pubreq bit in the I-D tracker ? Very possibly, but that is just a progress tracking issue. I agree we need a progress tracking mechanism, but that isn't the underlying point here, which IMHO is to get the author in discussion with the appropriate AD. Brian

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank On 2007-02-10 01:07, Frank Ellermann wrote: ... I don't like this draft, send publication request to secretariat is more attractive than spamming ADs. You probably need to understand what happens when someone does that. The Secretariat simply forwards the note to the IESG. After a

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-11 Thread Frank Ellermann
Brian E Carpenter wrote: send publication request to secretariat is more attractive than spamming ADs. You probably need to understand what happens when someone does that. Yes, I haven't tested it yet. The Secretariat simply forwards the note to the IESG. Don't they also set the pubreq

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Frank Ellermann
Jari Arkko wrote: I would be happy to sponsor a ternary bit draft, but only on April 1 :-) IETF replaces 'bits' by 'tits', [EMAIL PROTECTED], it could be a case where April 1st is no good excuse. What I don't like in your draft is the (apparent) personal veto right for the AD. Authors

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, On 2007-02-09 17:04, Frank Ellermann wrote: Jari Arkko wrote: I would be happy to sponsor a ternary bit draft, but only on April 1 :-) What I don't like in your draft is the (apparent) personal veto right for the AD. Authors (hopefully) have an idea about their topic, but they

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Leslie Daigle
Well, when the question (ION v. informational) came up within the IESG's discussion of the document, this is what I offered: On the ION v. RFC question -- I think this is *really* teetering on the edge! I've copied below the relevant section of draft-iab-rfc-editor-03. On the one hand, this

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Personally I've been convinced that this document definitely should not be an informational RFC. It should either be an ion or a bcp at the community's choice based on how much review they want when the IESG decides to change things. It doesn't make sense to me for the IETF to publish

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Jari Arkko
Hi Tom, There should be one document that is the starting point for those considering the RFC and IETF processes, one that gives an even-handed treatment of the available routes to varying outcomes, Right. If you are thinking in terms of an educational document, I'm not sure sure we have one

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Jari Arkko
Frank, What I don't like in your draft is the (apparent) personal veto right for the AD. Authors (hopefully) have an idea about their topic, but they don't need to be procedural experts. They don't need to know what an area is, if it has a catchall WG or not, and who the area directors are

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 09 February, 2007 13:20 -0500 Leslie Daigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, when the question (ION v. informational) came up within the IESG's discussion of the document, this is what I offered: On the ION v. RFC question -- I think this is *really* teetering on the edge!

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread John C Klensin
A couple of comments, with the understanding that Brian and are in substantial agreement about all of this and complete agreement about the things I've left out. --On Friday, 09 February, 2007 17:44 +0100 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... That's apparently a side effect of the must

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:57:58 +0200 Jari Arkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, at the end of the day there is going to be someone who has to decide whether a particular proposal fits the purpose of the WG, the IETF or the RFC series. This someone can be the people in the WG, the

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Frank Ellermann
Jari Arkko wrote: And as Brian noted, if this someone misuses their power for personal reasons or some other reason, we have an appeals process. I'm not sure there's fundamentally any other way to handle this. Nor me. Forcing them to either vote Yes for a document they don't really like, or

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Jari Arkko
Frank, Not publishing it at all is an alternative. And this is what we should do, if the community feels that way. However ... It would send an unmistakable message to wannabe-authors, that they should use the independent path, unless they're a friend of a friend of an AD. I personally

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Jari Arkko
Thanks for your note John. Let me also emphasize the need for these two drafts to be synchronized. Last calling draft-iesg at this time was made in part because we wanted to get the two in sync. I think we are more or less in sync but the remaining input should come from the community. As for the

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-08 01:25, Frank Ellermann wrote: John C Klensin wrote: If the IESG intends this document to merely represent the particular procedures they intend to follow within the range of alternatives over which they believe they have discretion, then it should probably be published as an ION

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2007-02-08 00:02, John C Klensin wrote: Hi. I will get to substance in a separate note, and hope others will also. In the interim, two procedural remarks... (1) This document and draft-klensin-rfc-independent-05.txt describe two pieces of the how a document that does not originate

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 08 February, 2007 03:34 -0500 Jari Arkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your note John. Let me also emphasize the need for these two drafts to be synchronized. Last calling draft-iesg at this time was made in part because we wanted to get the two in sync. I think we are

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Jari Arkko
John, Sure. But my point in that area was obviously not clear. Prior to the announcement of the Last Call, there was no indication to the community that this document should be considered and discussed, much less where. Right. We weren't ready for a very wide discussion with the earlier

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2007-02-08 13:16, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, 08 February, 2007 03:34 -0500 Jari Arkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your note John. Let me also emphasize the need for these two drafts to be synchronized. Last calling draft-iesg at this time was made in part because

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Scott O. Bradner
But its Informational. My read of RFC 2026 says that the 4 week case applies to Standards Track only. rfc 2026 says what must be done in some cases - it does not say what can not be done in the cases it does not cover - specifically, RFC 2026 in no way would block a 4-week last call for an

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Jari Arkko
Scott, rfc 2026 says what must be done in some cases - it does not say what can not be done in the cases it does not cover - specifically, RFC 2026 in no way would block a 4-week last call for an informational RFC - note that RFC 2026 does not require any last call for informationals

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-08 14:05, Scott O. Bradner wrote: But its Informational. My read of RFC 2026 says that the 4 week case applies to Standards Track only. rfc 2026 says what must be done in some cases - it does not say what can not be done in the cases it does not cover - specifically, RFC 2026 in no

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Sam Hartman
John == John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John --On Thursday, 08 February, 2007 03:34 -0500 Jari Arkko John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your note John. Let me also emphasize the need for these two drafts to be synchronized. Last calling draft-iesg at this

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Frank Ellermann
Jari Arkko wrote: please complain! That was the complaint, the draft is from an IESG POV, and it explains how to deal with confused authors claiming that a single bit is enough to count to three or similar cases. But it doesn't address the POV of authors who want to get an evaluation of their

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 08 February, 2007 10:19 -0500 Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Sure. But my point in that area was obviously not clear. John Prior to the announcement of the Last Call, there was no That sort of depends on what's going on here. Is Jari's draft an

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Jari Arkko
Hi Frank, That was the complaint, the draft is from an IESG POV, and it explains how to deal with confused authors claiming that a single bit is enough to count to three or similar cases. I would be happy to sponsor a ternary bit draft, but only on April 1 :-) But it doesn't address the

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:20:54 AM -0500 The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) to consider the following document: - 'Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents '

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-07 Thread Spencer Dawkins
And we should ask this question every time we see an informational process RFC last call... The best reason to publish a process document as an RFC is because it will be a BCP (IONs aren't BCPs). Since this one won't be a BCP, and given that guidance could change over time, I'd think an ION

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-07 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. I will get to substance in a separate note, and hope others will also. In the interim, two procedural remarks... (1) This document and draft-klensin-rfc-independent-05.txt describe two pieces of the how a document that does not originate in a WG may be reviewed and published space. Each

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-07 Thread Frank Ellermann
John C Klensin wrote: If the IESG intends this document to merely represent the particular procedures they intend to follow within the range of alternatives over which they believe they have discretion, then it should probably be published as an ION Not publishing it at all is an

Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-07 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) to consider the following document: - 'Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents ' draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines-01.txt as an Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few