Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-09-01 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. The recent discussion about DISCUSS and DS/IS documents has inspired me to go back and think about the two maturity levels draft again. Sadly, it hasn't changed my mind but has, in some respects, reinforced and strengthened my earlier view that this is not a good idea and is not harmless.

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-09-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, September 01, 2011 08:10 -0700 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: ... Folks should remember that this is a system that has been functioning quite well for some decades and I am not aware of any recent emergencies that justify starting over or making major changes. The

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread jari . arkko
I pretty much agree, although one form of discuss might be reasonable: This document needs to be recycled at Proposed Standard because of the following *observed* interoperability problem: In other words, once we have got this BCP out (soon, please), the IESG should update the DISCUSS

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 14, 2011, at 5:49 AM, jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: I pretty much agree, although one form of discuss might be reasonable: This document needs to be recycled at Proposed Standard because of the following *observed* interoperability problem: In other words, once we have got this

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread jari . arkko
Keith, However, as with most things I don't think there are hard and fast rules. I agree that such things need to be described, but I don't think this description should be gated on, or wait for, advancement in grade. The errata mechanism can be used to report some kinds of

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 14, 2011, at 9:24 AM, jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: What I tried to say above is that I dislike hard rules such as: - We should never require a -ds document to say additional things - We should always apply the most recent IETF approved rules (such as BCP 109 on key management) to all

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread Hector Santos
jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: Keith, However, as with most things I don't think there are hard and fast rules. I agree that such things need to be described, but I don't think this description should be gated on, or wait for, advancement in grade. The errata mechanism can be used to report

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-14 Thread Russ Housley
I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss the document makes all sorts of sense. But for subsequent steps that virtue is a lot obvious, to me at least.

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread ned+ietf
To add one observation to SM's comment and other observations that the scarcity of implementation reports implies that they are somehow difficult... --On Friday, August 05, 2011 02:45 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: I presume that the IESG will only use the following criteria for

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-14 06:29, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: ... I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss the document makes all sorts of sense. But for

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread John Leslie
ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss the document makes all sorts of sense. But for

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread ned+ietf
On 2011-08-14 06:29, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: ... I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss the document makes all sorts of sense. But

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 13, 2011, at 4:43 PM, John Leslie wrote: ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread Dave Crocker
+1 d/ -- Dave Crocker bbiw.net via mobile -Original Message- I pretty much agree, although one form of discuss might be reasonable: This document needs to be recycled at Proposed Standard because of the following *observed* interoperability problem: In other words,

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Koch
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 07:02:07PM -0700, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt as a BCP I have reviewed this version

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-08 Thread John C Klensin
To add one observation to SM's comment and other observations that the scarcity of implementation reports implies that they are somehow difficult... --On Friday, August 05, 2011 02:45 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: I presume that the IESG will only use the following criteria for

RE: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt(Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-08 Thread SM
Hi Medel, At 17:57 07-08-2011, GT RAMIREZ, Medel G. wrote: 1)Is there such thing as a good enough Criteria to handle this concern? Glen Zorn asked a question during the last plenary and there was a discussion [1] about criteria on this mailing list. To be fair, I'll quote a message from

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-08 Thread SM
Hi Hector, At 18:22 07-08-2011, Hector Santos wrote: Of course, when implementation reports are written, one has to watchful for the summarized analytical results that either attempt to add weight to an desired goal or mask the undesired goal and natural result. An implementation report is

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-08 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: This is not an exercise we should have to go through. Engineers must have complete faith in implementation reports. Faith-based engineering and reality are mutually exclusive. :-) Touche! -- Hector Santos, CTO http://www.santronics.com

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, August 06, 2011 07:15 -0700 Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: If a document no longer has anyone watching it, there's a reasonable concern that it no longer has much constituency.  In that case, it's better to treat it as immature rather than mature. In order to have

RE: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt(Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-07 Thread GT RAMIREZ, Medel G.
Hi SM, Pardon me; 1)Is there such thing as a good enough Criteria to handle this concern? 2)Or as usual it passes rough consensus process? Regards, Medel -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of SM

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-07 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: People are not doing many implementation reports. As you say above, there are only about 75 of them. How many protocols are documented in RFCs? That is a very low percentage in my view. Yes, it's a very low percentage. I don't have the figure for the number of protocols

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-06 Thread Bob Hinden
Dave, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 7/29/2011 11:13 AM, Russ Housley wrote: (2) At any time after two years from the approval of this document as a BCP, the IESG may choose to reclassify any Draft Standard document as Proposed Standard. I think

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-05 Thread SM
Hi Russ, At 12:28 PM 8/3/2011, Russ Housley wrote: I am well aware of the implementation reports. The premise here is that the protocol specification is good enough there are at least two interoperable implementations and the protocol is deployed widely. The implementation report would

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hector, On 2011-08-04 14:35, Hector Santos wrote: Brian E Carpenter asked: Can you be more specific? Are you talking about a) drafts that appear in the WG with very mature text, so complete the WG progress very quickly? b) drafts that are direct submissions to the IESG, and go through

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-05 Thread Hector Santos
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Are you saying that the existing review process for direct submission or Independent Submission RFCs fails to detect work that overlaps with WGs? At least in one experience, I would not say it was a failure per se but more realistically, for many possible reasons, it

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-03 Thread Russ Housley
SM: From Section 2.1: no existing published requirements are relaxed. Are these published requirements BCPs? Yes. From Section 2.2: 'This maturity level is a merger of Draft Standard and Standard as specified in RFC 2026 [1]. The chosen name avoids confusion between Draft

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-03 Thread Hector Santos
I appreciate this exchange here. I have a better idea of the draft and your intention I have a few comments. What I have noticed of late are fast track RFCs are coming out of no where, very fast and sometimes are indirectly related to a WG but not a WG chartered work item, and it may have an

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hector, On 2011-08-04 09:19, Hector Santos wrote: I appreciate this exchange here. I have a better idea of the draft and your intention I have a few comments. What I have noticed of late are fast track RFCs are coming out of no where, very fast and sometimes are indirectly related to a WG

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-03 Thread Hector Santos
Brian E Carpenter asked: Can you be more specific? Are you talking about a) drafts that appear in the WG with very mature text, so complete the WG progress very quickly? b) drafts that are direct submissions to the IESG, and go through IETF Last Call and IESG review without coming near the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-29 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, I generally support this proposal, but have some questions on Section 2.3, Transition to a Standards Track with Two Maturity Levels. I am both an author of several Draft Standards and have chaired working groups that have produced them. Any protocol or service that is currently at

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-29 Thread Russ Housley
Bob: I generally support this proposal, but have some questions on Section 2.3, Transition to a Standards Track with Two Maturity Levels. I am both an author of several Draft Standards and have chaired working groups that have produced them. Any protocol or service that is currently

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/29/2011 11:13 AM, Russ Housley wrote: (2) At any time after two years from the approval of this document as a BCP, the IESG may choose to reclassify any Draft Standard document as Proposed Standard. I think this is unfair to the people who have done considerable work to get a document

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-29 Thread SM
At 07:02 PM 7/27/2011, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/28/11 1:05 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello, The new version is obviously shorter, but it omits some points. With eliminating of DS level, RFC 5657 makes no sense more. Wrong. The *title* needs to be adjusted, but mutatis mutandis the general advice is useful. It should be

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-28 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
28.07.2011 16:52, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/28/11 1:05 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello, The new version is obviously shorter, but it omits some points. With eliminating of DS level, RFC 5657 makes no sense more. Wrong. The *title* needs to be adjusted, but mutatis mutandis the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-27 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Hello, The new version is obviously shorter, but it omits some points. With eliminating of DS level, RFC 5657 makes no sense more. It should be obsoleted and moved to Historic by your document, if IESG decides to eliminate the requirement for interoperability documentation, which I am

Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-27 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on