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Re: Last Call: <draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt> (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 15:49:47
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On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Pete Resnick 
<presnick(_at_)qti(_dot_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
 wrote:

On 9/3/13 1:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 04/09/2013 04:16, Pete Resnick wrote:
  
On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote:
    
...the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3...
      
Good catch. I'll switch the citation and the quote to the bit from
6.1.3, but I'll also note the removal of the piece in 2.1. I also found
a mention in the last paragraph of 3.3. I'll make sure to note in the
document that we're removing that too.
    

Here's what I've got as a replacement for section 1:

  RFC 2026 [RFC2026] and its predecessors call for the publication of
  an RFC describing the status of IETF protocols:

     The RFC Editor shall publish periodically an "Internet Official
     Protocol Standards" RFC [1], summarizing the status of all
     Internet protocol and service specifications.

  The "Internet Official Protocol Standards" document, now as RFC 5000
  [RFC5000], has always been listed in the Internet Standard series as
  STD 1.  However, the document has not been kept up to date in recent
  years, and it has fallen out of use in favor of the online list
  produced by the RFC Editor [STDS-TRK].  The IETF no longer sees the
  need for the document to be maintained.  Therefore, this document
  updates RFC 2026 [RFC2026], effectively removing the above mentioned
  paragraph from section 6.1.3, along with the paragraph from section
  2.1 that states:

     The status of Internet protocol and service specifications is
     summarized periodically in an RFC entitled "Internet Official
     Protocol Standards" [1].  This RFC shows the level of maturity and
     other helpful information for each Internet protocol or service
     specification (see section 3).

  and the paragraph from section 3.3 that states:

     The "Official Protocol Standards" RFC (STD1) lists a general
     requirement level for each TS, using the nomenclature defined in
     this section.  This RFC is updated periodically.  In many cases,
     more detailed descriptions of the requirement levels of particular
     protocols and of individual features of the protocols will be
     found in appropriate ASs.

  Additionally, this document obsoletes RFC 5000 [RFC5000], the current
  incarnation of that document, and requests that the IESG move that
  document (and therefore STD 1) to Historic status.

Makes me go over 2 pages, but such is life.

life is hard sometimes :-)

the above text works for me


and while you are at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd
paragraph in the same section
    An official summary of standards actions completed and pending shall
    appear in each issue of the Internet Society's newsletter.  This
    shall constitute the "publication of record" for Internet standards
    actions.

should also be removed since that is not being done either
and it is not good to say we have a publication of record that
does not actually exist
      
I agree it should probably be removed. Should we replace it anything?
    
Maybe an informational statement that the current standards status is always
at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html ? (Or whatever stable URL
the RFC Editor prefers to cite.)
  

I've fixed the reference to [STDS-TRK] so that it shows the URL. I'm not sure 
we need to make further reference to it.

Thinking about this more, we're starting to drift afield of the purpose of 
this document if we start removing that paragraph. Removing that paragraph 
requires a different explanation than the rest. Speaking for myself only, I'm 
leaning against dealing with it. Anyone want to speak strongly for or against?

no strong feeling either way

Scott


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