The terminology used for who signs off on post-IESG changes is
inconsistent in the document. It is fine that this document doesn't
specify who does the sign-off (that's an IETF decision), but the
document should be consistent in who it says is doing it. The wording
is "appropriate technical representatives" in 3.3, but "appropriate
IETF party (often the document shepherd, but sometimes, by referral,
the IESG)" in 3.7.
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In section 3.4:
o Req-REFVAL-1 - The IETF technical publisher should ensure that
references within specifications are available.
That should probably be "...that all references..."; some of them are
sure to be available. :-)
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In section 4.1:
o Req-TIMEFRAMES-2 - The consensus of the IETF community is that
the time required for a pre-publication review should be under 10
days. The actual performance targets and metrics are expected to
be determined as part of the contract negotiation process.
The term "pre-publication review" is not defined anywhere in the
document, and it probably should, given this consensus statement.
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Section 5 talks about "potential issues" for the IETF. Two bullet
items do not match the earlier part of the document.
o Pre- vs Post-Approval Editing: If emphasis switches from post-
approval editing to pre-approval editing, then IETF processes must
be adapted to make use of this service. The processes for post-
approval editing can also be streamlined.
Section 3.1 makes a requirement that the emphasis must switch. So,
"If" should probably be "When".
o Allocation of Permanent Stable Identifiers: IETF needs to clearly
identify the naming/numbering schemes and classes of documents to
which those names and numbers apply. Furthermore, the
responsibility for allocation of those names/numbers needs to be
identified.
Section 3.8 says that it is the IETF publisher's responsibility, so
the second sentence should probably be removed.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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