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Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-27 10:42:07
Few questions:

1. Section 4 say that "For documents that are independent of the IETF process:
This document is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard."

Does this means that an individual submission can only be Informational only?
ie. not even experimental? If so, how does this fit into what happened in IMAA
BoF in Seoul?

(The conclusion is no working group, but wrap up and docs some of the
implementations as possibly experimental RFCs via individual submissions)

2. Section 3 talks about the various IESG responses. Most of it makes sense
but the last one: "The IESG thinks that this document extends an IETF protocol
in a way that requires IETF review, and should therefore not be published
without IETF review."

It wasn't very clear when will the above apply.

Beside, wasn't individual submission already (maybe) subjected to 4 weeks last
call? Does this qualify as 'IETF review'?

Or 'IETF review' implies review by a IETF Working Group?

-James Seng

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no>
To: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: IESG review of RFC Editor documents


The IESG has proposed a change in its present review procedures for IESG
review of documents submitted directly to the RFC Editor for publication.

The IESG will be discussing this in detail, and with the RFC Editor, next
week - the input document for that discussion is published as an I-D below

Your input is welcome!

Copy of the announcement below.

(note - between solutions, icar, poised and the IETF list, I chose the IETF
list - I will post notes to the 3 other lists saying that I've asked for
discussion of this on the IETF list.... judgment call).

              Harald


                Harald Alvestrand

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Date: 25. mars 2004 15:38 -0500
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories. This draft is a work item of the Internet Engineering Steering
Group Working Group of the IETF.

Title : The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures
Author(s) : H. Alvestrand
Filename : draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2004-3-25

This document gives the IESG's procedures for handling documents
   submitted for RFC publication via the RFC Editor, subsequent to the
   changes proposed by the IESG at the Seoul IETF, March 2004.

   NOTE IN DRAFT: These guidelines are proposed, not adopted. Comments
   are welcome - please send them to iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org(_dot_)

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