Hi David,
At 13:51 23-06-2009, David Harrington wrote:
3) Bernard Aboba concerned that IETF should focus on making successful
protocols, and Management Considerations may be an unnecessary
requirement.
[dbh: this document went to great lengths to say that it was NOT
prescribing a Management Considerations requirement. sigh]
The problem is not about what your document is not prescribing. It
is about how it may be used. In Section 1:
"This document provides guidelines to help protocol designers and
working groups consider the operations and management functionality
for their new IETF protocol or protocol extension at an earlier phase."
In an Informational document, guidelines provide guidance. In a BCP
document, it can be read as "the IETF community agrees to adopt these
guidelines". In Section 1.2:
"This document does not impose a solution, or imply that a formal data
model is needed, or imply that using a specific management protocol
is mandatory."
The catch is in the following sentence:
"Any decision to make a Management Considerations section a mandatory
publication requirement for IETF documents is the responsibility of
the IESG, or specific area directors, or working groups, and this
document avoids recommending any mandatory publication requirements."
The IESG could come up with such a requirement for the IETF Stream if
this document is published as a BCP.
In Section 1.3:
"The IESG policy to require working groups to write a MIB module to
provide manageability for new protocols is being replaced by a policy
that is more open to using a variety of management protocols and data
models designed to achieve different goals."
The insistence on BCP could be seen as a way to set the stage for that.
At 13:40 24-06-2009, Eric Rosen wrote:
Since assigning responsibilities to the IESG is presumably out of scope of
this document, why not shorten this sentence to:
"This document avoids recommending any mandatory publication
requirements"
I suggest a slight change to the proposed sentence:
This document does not recommend any mandatory publication requirements
I also suggest publishing the document as Informational.
Regards,
-sm
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