Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-19 Thread Frank Ellermann
Joe Abley wrote: I've always wondered what the designation for your information adds to an RFC that is already labelled informational. Me too. I hope to find out :-) Try FYI 1 = RFC 1150, but it doesn't exactly answer the question ;-) ___ Ietf

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-01-18 17:13, Joe Abley wrote: On 17-Jan-2008, at 18:50, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 18-Jan-2008, at 21:48, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I've always wondered what the designation for your information adds to an RFC that is already labelled informational. Me too. I hope to find out :-) Joe ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the sense of the enumeration above, with special tagging applied. That's certainly true

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-01-18 13:14, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 12:50 PM +1300 1/18/08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul Hoffman skrev: At 12:50 PM +1300 1/18/08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the sense of

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 12:50 PM +1300 1/18/08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the sense of the enumeration

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
Harald Alvestrand wrote: [BCP} I long ago proposed splitting the series into the two effective subseries it has - process documents and forcefully recommended advice to operators/implementors - but that obvious move is Just Too Much Of A Hassle ...it could be more straight forward than

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 3:52 AM +0100 1/18/08, Frank Ellermann wrote: Or maybe TAO is the IETF user manual and public FAQ, while IONs not limited to Procdoc are the reference manual for folks trying to figure out why user manual and implementation are different. Something along that line, yes. The Tao really

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Joe Abley
On 17-Jan-2008, at 18:50, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the sense of the enumeration above, with