In general, it seems like the independent submissions draft represents a careful balance between a lot of issues that we've been trying to wrap our minds around. I think it does a good job and should be published.
There is one area that seems to be missing: the interactions between the independent stream and IANA. Can an independent submission establish an IANA registry? How are expert reviews for IANA allocation handled? What happens if an expert declines a necessary codepoint? Presumably the same thing happens if IETF consensus is required for something that an independent submission tries to allocate. I don't think this is a critical flaw; I think the document would be improved by discussing these issues, but I think we can get along without this discussion. One area where I do think advice would be very useful to authors is in how to take a document that was a protocol spec and thus requires IANA allocations and to turn it into something that is simply a description of potential extensions to a protocol without IANA allocations. I think that's the only way to easily publish an alternative to an IETF proposal requiring IANA allocations over the IETF's objection. Perhaps this is the wrong document for that advice but it would be useful never the less. _______________________________________________ INDEPENDENT mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/independent
