Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-11 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2011-06-11 06:36, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: ... whereas you propose making I-Ds almost Standards Track. As it was discussed before, there is an evidence of leaving PSs without any action/progress; introducing Stable Snapshots there might occur Stable Snapshots left without any action, like

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-11 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
11.06.2011 10:59, Julian Reschke wrote: On 2011-06-11 06:36, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: ... whereas you propose making I-Ds almost Standards Track. As it was discussed before, there is an evidence of leaving PSs without any action/progress; introducing Stable Snapshots there might occur Stable

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-10 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.06.2011 10:58, Dave Cridland wrote: On Wed Jun 8 05:57:15 2011, Pete Resnick wrote: On 6/7/11 11:00 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: And, more to the point I think, to greatly decrease the quality of RFCs published. Perhaps that's OK, but we need pretty strong consensus that it's the right

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jun 8 05:57:15 2011, Pete Resnick wrote: On 6/7/11 11:00 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: And, more to the point I think, to greatly decrease the quality of RFCs published. Perhaps that's OK, but we need pretty strong consensus that it's the right thing to do, and I haven't seen that

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-07 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Pete, thanks for your helpful summary. Comments inline, now that I've had a chance to review all of the Last Call feedback. On 5/30/11 5:20 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: On 5/5/11 11:13 AM, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-07 Thread Pete Resnick
On 6/7/11 11:00 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Pete, thanks for your helpful summary. Comments inline, now that I've had a chance to review all of the Last Call feedback. A conversation I'm happy to have. Comments inline. We are still men without hats. On 5/30/11 5:20 PM, Pete Resnick

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:57:15PM -0500, Pete Resnick wrote: So you think that this is *not* a motivation for the changes and is *not* something we need to change? Interesting. For what it's worth, quite apart from thinking that the draft in question will do nothing to change the state of

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-05 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Pete Resnick wrote: [...] Section 2.2 (a) Specifically, merge Draft Standard into Internet Standard (b) Combine criteria from Draft Standard and Standard (i) Significant number of implementations with successful operational experience (ii) No unresolved errata causing interoperational

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-06-01 Thread Alessandro Vesely
For an outsider's feedback about John's comments (1), (4), and (5): On 31/May/11 18:23, John C Klensin wrote: This proposal is problematic in several ways. The first is obviously the most important, but the others suggest changes that might be useful whether or not that main provision is

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-31 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/30/11 7:39 PM, SM wrote: At 16:20 30-05-2011, Pete Resnick wrote: So, here is my a proposed alternative: 1. Make the changes in (A). We still need to say how to make that happen, and how to deal with the increased number of RFCs. The annual review provides an alternative to deal with

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:13 -0700 The IESG iesg-secret...@ietf.org wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt as a BCP

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 08:27 -0500 Pete Resnick presn...@qualcomm.com wrote: 1. Make the changes in (A). We still need to say how to make that happen, and how to deal with the increased number of RFCs. The annual review provides an alternative to deal with the increased number of

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-30 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/5/11 11:13 AM, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: capturing the intended standards level, Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-10 Thread SM
Hi Julian, At 22:12 09-05-2011, Julian Reschke wrote: rfc2629.xslt allows specifying the intended maturity in the XML source...: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html#rfc.section.12.1.p.2 ...but it's only metadata in the XML source. Maybe we should add it to the ID

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread Russ Housley
SM: s much as I would like to use the IESG as a scapegoat, the reality is that IETF working groups also work briskly to on impediments. Section 4 mentions that the rules that prohibit references to documents at lower maturity levels are a major cause of stagnation in the advancement of

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread Julian Reschke
On 09.05.2011 16:34, Russ Housley wrote: ... My person experience with advancing documents is that downrefs are a significant hindrance. As you point out, procedures have been adopted to permit downrefs, but they are not sufficient. We often see Last Call repeated just to resolve a downref

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Hi Julian, Julian Reschke wrote: On 09.05.2011 16:34, Russ Housley wrote: ... My person experience with advancing documents is that downrefs are a significant hindrance. As you point out, procedures have been adopted to permit downrefs, but they are not sufficient. We often see Last

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread Julian Reschke
On 09.05.2011 18:10, Alexey Melnikov wrote: Hi Julian, Julian Reschke wrote: On 09.05.2011 16:34, Russ Housley wrote: ... My person experience with advancing documents is that downrefs are a significant hindrance. As you point out, procedures have been adopted to permit downrefs, but they

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread SM
Hi Russ, At 07:34 09-05-2011, Russ Housley wrote: My person experience with advancing documents is that downrefs are a significant Thanks for sharing that. hindrance. As you point out, procedures have been adopted to permit downrefs, but they are not sufficient. We often see Last Call

capturing the intended standards level, Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-09 Thread Julian Reschke
On 09.05.2011 19:07, SM wrote: ... For what it is worth, the draft was intended for publication as an Internet Standard (STD 71). As I see it, the problem here is that Intended status: Standards Track is assumed to be Proposed Standard. As the Document Shepherd runs a draft through Id-nits, he

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-08 Thread SM
At 09:13 05-05-2011, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 05 May 2011, at 12:13 , The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu May 5 23:47:50 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: Folks, On 5/5/2011 11:33 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: As I have stated before, I do not think that this proposal will achieve anything useful since it will not change anything related to the underlying causes of few Proposed Standards advancing

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread John Leslie
Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: To quote from draft-bradner-ietf-stds-trk-00 (paraphrasing newtrk). 4/ there seems to be a reinforcing feedback loop involved: vendors implement and deploy PS documents so the IESG tries to make the PS documents better This is the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Jari, and others, I support this draft with the caveat that we can establish a set of significant metrics that provide us an understanding as to the impact of the change. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 11:44:48 2011, John Leslie wrote: Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: To quote from draft-bradner-ietf-stds-trk-00 (paraphrasing newtrk). 4/ there seems to be a reinforcing feedback loop involved: vendors implement and deploy PS documents so the IESG tries to

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Jari Arkko
As the sponsoring AD for Russ' draft, I'm very interested in hearing what everyone thinks about this. Please keep those comments coming! The last call was started as it was felt that discussion may have converged enough so that we could perhaps move forward with this proposal, or at least

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread John Leslie
Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: On Fri May 6 11:44:48 2011, John Leslie wrote: If we want to change this, we need to start putting warning-labels in the _individual_ RFCs that don't meet a ready for widespread deployment criterion. I do not believe this will work, actually.

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ship it. We are way past the point of diminishing returns in polishing this. Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Hello again, Now as for the document itself. I really appreciate its purpose; encouraging Proposed-Standards-writers to advance their document replacing 3-tier system to 2-tier one is a good idea. However, in fact, this proposal in its current view really can't work effectively because of:

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Keith Moore
I am opposed to approving this document as BCP. It is trying to solve the wrong problem; or to put it another way, it is trying to solve a relatively minor problem in a way that distracts attention away from more important problems. Approval of this document will exacerbate an already bad

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Ted Hardie
The document currently says: Downward normative references to Informational documents continue to be allowed using the procedure specified in RFC 3967 [2]. Downward normative references to Historic documents, Experimental documents, and Internet-Draft documents continue to be

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Russ Housley
Ted: The document currently says: Downward normative references to Informational documents continue to be allowed using the procedure specified in RFC 3967 [2]. Downward normative references to Historic documents, Experimental documents, and Internet-Draft documents continue

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Scott O. Bradner
As I have stated before, I do not think that this proposal will achieve anything useful since it will not change anything related to the underlying causes of few Proposed Standards advancing on the standards track. I see it as window dressing and, thus, a diversion from the technical work the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Ted Hardie
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: I strongly object to this text in Section 5: 2) At any time after two years from the approval of this document as a BCP, the IESG may choose to reclassify any Draft Standard document as Proposed

RE: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Bernard Aboba
Speaking for myself only, I believe that this proposal does attempt to address some issues relating to advancement, so that it is not entirely window dressing. For example, I believe that the changes with respect to down references (Section 4) and annual review (Section 3) are

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Donald Eastlake
I think this draft may do a little good, but mostly based on the attention it brings to the issue. If it is actually desired to make it easier to become a Proposed Standard, it would be quite easy and straightforward to take real steps that would make a real different. For example, to *prohibit*

re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Ross Callon
I support publishing this document as a BCP. While I understand that this does not solve all conceivable problems with the world, nonetheless I see this as a small but significant step in the right direction. Thanks, Ross -Original Message- From: ietf-announce-boun...@ietf.org

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On May 5, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Ross Callon wrote: I support publishing this document as a BCP. While I understand that this does not solve all conceivable problems with the world, nonetheless I see this as a small but significant step in the right direction. Hear, hear. +1. Melinda

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread John Leslie
Donald Eastlake d3e...@gmail.com wrote: If it is actually desired to make it easier to become a Proposed Standard, it would be quite easy and straightforward to take real steps that would make a real different. For example, to *prohibit* the requirement of multiple interoperable

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
Folks, On 5/5/2011 11:33 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: As I have stated before, I do not think that this proposal will achieve anything useful since it will not change anything related to the underlying causes of few Proposed Standards advancing on the standards track. We currently have a