How to get feedback on published RFCs
2016-07-19 04:42:19
Once an RFC is published, there is essentially no way for readers to
provide feedback: what works, what are the implementation pitfalls,
how does the document relate to other technologies or even to other
RFCs.
We IETF insiders usually know what is the relevant working group,
and can take our feedback there. Non-insiders though don't have any
contact point, and so will most likely keep their feedback to
themselves. These non-IETFers are the target audience of our
documents! Unfortunately, our so-called "Requests for Comments" are
anything but an invitation to submit comments.
There is a number of tools now that allow "web annotations" (i.e.,
comments) on various published documents. I submitted a draft [1]
recently that proposes to enable annotations on the "tools" version
of our RFCs. Technically, this is a trivial change. From a process
point of view it is more complicated and merits discussion on this
list. Sec. 6 of the draft allows you to see for yourself what such
annotations would look like.
I am here in Berlin if people prefer to talk it over in person.
Otherwise, please reply on this list.
Thanks,
Yaron
[1]
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheffer-ietf-rfc-annotations-00
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