The proposal is for the RPC to own the repository in which AUTH48 is done.

If the WG / authors have a repo, it would be up to them to port any changes
from the RPC repo back to that one.

--Richard

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM Ronald Tse <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As an observer outside this discussion, thank you to all who have been
> participating!
>
> From Richard’s proposal (which seems to me reasonable and effective), my
> question is whether the repository of the eventually to-be-published RFC
> would belong to the RPC or the author(s).
>
> I imagine it is somewhat awkward if the RPC/editor had to go to various
> authors’ repositories to make and track PRs. Different authors would likely
> use different repository structures.
>
> Perhaps the model would be having the Internet-Draft being developed at
> the authors’ repository, then at AUTH48 the RPC creates their own version
> of the repository for editorial and publication purposes?
>
> Ron
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> On 18 Sep 2025, at 11:02 AM, Brian E Carpenter <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just to be clear, if the authors want to make unsolicited changes beyond
> what the RPC changed, they should be generating their own PRs, not making
> those changes to the RPC's PR.
>
>
> And if the changes are not purely editorial, they must be reported to the
> WG, as long as we're talking about IETF Consensus documents. So that
> changes the game.
>
> BTW I'm not sure the procedure that Richard outlined is complete. There's
> an important step in the current procedure that he didn't list:
>
> 2a. Script sends RPC's specfic questions to authors in a second email
>
> and step 3 should read:
>
> 3. Authors respond to email including answering those specific questions
>
> So how are those questions handled via Github? And how does the RPC nag
> authors that don't reply?
>
>    Brian
>
> On 18-Sep-25 14:43, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM Paul Hoffman <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>> wrote:
>    On 17 Sep 2025, at 19:09, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>     > To be clear, what I was trying to say was not that all the RPC's
> changes
>     > should be in one PR -- though I think that's easiest for the RPC at
> this
>     > point -- but rather that as they iterate on a given set of changes
> they
>     > should be in a single PR.
>    How do you picture those author responses to the PR going? Simply as
> comments in the PR? Text changes done as commits in the branch that created
> the PR? Or something else?
> Comments to the PR that specify what the authors want clearly and/or
> Github suggestions that specify the exact changes.
> I don't think commits in the branch that created the PR are helpful and
> generally may not be permitted by the GitHub permissions model (depending
> on exactly how things are specified).
>    I ask because I suck at commenting in PRs for documents, and when I do
> so, I get wildly different advice from the authors about the proper way to
> comment in a PR. It would be good if the RPC could say to authors ahead of
> time how the authors should interact with the PR (just as they are told how
> to respond to AUTH48 email).
> Well, hopefully this situation is clearer because the space of reasonable
> comments is rather smaller, as the authors should only be commenting on
> text the RPC has changed, and so mostly you should either be saying "Please
> revert this change" or "Here is yet another alternate piece of text".
> Just to be clear, if the authors want to make unsolicited changes beyond
> what the RPC changed, they should be generating their own PRs, not making
> those changes to the RPC's PR.
> -Ekr
>    --Paul Hoffman
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