Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-21 Thread Fred Templin
Thanks Harald, and also to the others who responded. It appears I was mistaken in saying that I had never seen the statement beginning: This document and the information contained herein..., since the same text appears in some of my own documents. However, I don't recall ever seeing it prefaced

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-21 Thread Fred Templin
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On 21. mai 2004 11:30 -0700 Fred Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still a bit puzzled by what Disclaimer of Validity could mean, .e.g., could it mean that everything that appears in the document before it is invalid? Would appreciate clarification on this. I

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-20 Thread Fred Templin
Hello Harald, I had a question on this that may be somewhat related to Pekka's. On the final page of the document, we find: Disclaimer of Validity This document and the information contained herein are provided on an AS IS basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-20 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Fred Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures'

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-19 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
thanks for your comments, Pekka! wrt review subjects - we went a few rounds on this, and the current list is probably a reasonable compromise between no list and exhaustive list - it's short enough to make people notice that such as probably covers a lot of stuff not mentioned. Good that you

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:39 PM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in general that seems OK though I'd like to see including the possibility of the author pursuing the work within the IETF added Clearly I intended that option to be included. I didn't state it for two reasons.

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-12 Thread Scott Bradner
I get really worried about text -- especially new text-- in these procedural documents that enables or encourages potential protocol lawyers... whether they are inside the IESG or outside the core IETF community. a reasonable worry (sorry to say) - note though that the text I'm

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 10. mai 2004 09:33 -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this misses one of the outcomes listed in RFC 2026 - specifically (quoting from 2026): the IESG recommends that the document be brought within the IETF and progressed within the IETF context this path has been

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread John C Klensin
Pete, I thought I was describing the status quo and what is currently happening. Unless the IAB has handed off that responsibility to the IESG in the last two years (in which case the community wasn't told), the IESG's having any discussion at all with the RFC Editor about an IAB document

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Scott Bradner
--On 10. mai 2004 09:33 -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this misses one of the outcomes listed in RFC 2026 - specifically (quoting from 2026): the IESG recommends that the document be brought within the IETF and progressed within the IETF context this path has

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 11. mai 2004 08:46 -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The work can be done in the IETF, and the author agrees. The author should (IMHO) be the one to inform the RFC Editor that he/she is dropping the request to publish outside IETF review. but that seems to drop a ball - the

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Scott Bradner
Anything else should (IMHO) be advice to the RFC Editor and the author, and not be part of the formal position-taking the IESG makes. we may be debating termonology your ID says The IESG may return five different responses that seems to eliminate the possibility of communicating any such

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread John C Klensin
Scott, Harald, It seems to me that this problem/ disagreement could be easily solved while preserving the (IMO, valid) points both of you are making, by including a sentence somewhere to the effect of... Of course, the IESG or individual ADs may have discussions with the author

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Scott Bradner
in general that seems OK though I'd like to see including the possibility of the author pursuing the work within the IETF added From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 11 12:18:30 2004 X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:18:20 -0400 From: John

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Scott Bradner
looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st RFCs, and republication of documents from other SDOs - the IESG and the RFC Editor keep a running dialogue on which

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st RFCs, and republication of documents from other

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 10:57 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note that I just used the words that were there - do you suggest leaving teh words as they are? if not, maybe you can suggest something better I guess that, before, the text was sufficiently muddy that I didn't

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Scott Bradner
fwiw - this works for me --- From: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP --On Monday, May 10, 2004 10:57 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/10/04 at 10:54 AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st

Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-05 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Internet Engineering Steering Group WG to consider the following document: - 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures ' draft-iesg-rfced-documents-01.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final