On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:31 59PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
On 04/18/2010 06:58 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
Is there a standard way to publish a "call for discussion" memo?
Yes, an internet-draft, perhaps containg prose such as "this draft
is intended to initiate discussion. At this time, the author does
not intend it to reach RFC status."
A little later, a "BOF session invitation" serves some of the same
purposes.
Thanks for the info. I'm reading the documents to figure out how
IETF process works...
So basically, you write an I-D, send it to RFC editor. It gets
published, people discuss it. Later on it expires and is removed.
Not quite -- the RFC editor gets involved only when the decision has
been made to publish it as an RFC.
You submit I-Ds via https://datatracker.ietf.org/idst/upload.cgi; as
long as you meet the publication requirements (formatting,
boilerplate, etc.) and don't name is as a working group draft
without the consent of the chairs, publication is more or less
automatic. After it appears, I'd advise you send a message to the
appropriate mailing list -- a WG list, for example -- pointing it
out to people.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Dear Martin;
You should read the "Tao of the IETF."
Note that Internet Drafts ("I-Ds") are ephemeral - "publishing" just
means "appears as a draft," and, yes, that's pretty automatic.
What most people think of as publishing is done when I-Ds become
Requests for Comments (RFCs), and that is by no means automatic.
Regards
Marshall
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