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Re: Last Call: <draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01.txt> (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-17 18:59:43


--On Saturday, May 18, 2013 08:14 +1200 Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

John,

On 18/05/2013 05:23, John C Klensin wrote:

...
I, however, do have one significant objection to the current
draft of the document and do not believe it should be
published (at least as an RFC in the IETF Stream) until the
problem is remedied.  The Introduction (Section 1) contains
the sentence "Since the publication of RFC 2050, the Internet
Numbers Registry System has changed significantly."   

If we want to avoid ratholes built into the document, it might
be prudent to rephrase that sentence as
"Since the publication of RFC 2050, the environment of the
Internet Numbers Registry System has changed."

Both statements are true-- the environment has changed and the
system has changed.  At least in principle, the environment has
changed less with three three really notable events being the
advent of ICANN, the end-game of the IPv4 address space, and the
growing importance of the IPv6 one.  I think that can be said
and the other changes summarized.  From my point of view, if we
have to avoid describing the changes to avoid ratholes, it would
be legitimate for someone to ask what we are hiding.  

That sentence is
expanded upon in Section 6, which bears the interesting title
of "Summary of Changes Since RFC 2050".  But Section 6
contains no such summary, merely a statement that things have
changed and that some material -- unidentified except by the
broadest of categories -- has been omitted.
 
I took that section title to refer to changes *in the text* of
2050, not changes in the system. Maybe the authors could
clarify their intent, and if it is limited to text changes,
clarify the wording accordingly.

I just checked your hypothesis by looking at a diff between 2050
and the present draft.  As far as I can tell from a quick
review, there is not a single unchanged paragraph.  So, if the
issue is text changes, this is not an update but an almost
complete replacement.

    john



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