Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Eric Burger
And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile doing. On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Sparks wrote: > Scott - > > Didn't RFC 5657 address your poin

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: > And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are > not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are > moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile doing. We are more closely aligning our documentation with our

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: >> And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are >> not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are >> moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile d

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/28/11 10:20 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > In other words, I'm not convinced that this change will do much harm, > but I'm also not convinced that it will help much. I don't disagree. > And yet we keep > flogging this idea... But we always flog the easy issues, rather than facing the tough ones

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, On 2011-07-29 02:20, Keith Moore wrote: > On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > >> On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: >>> And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are >>> not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are >>>

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Newman
I have read version 08 and support this proposal. - Chris --On July 27, 2011 17:46:22 -0400 Jari Arkko wrote: Here's the link: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-housley-two-maturity-levels ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/28/11 9:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still see no reason to think that this change will cause any significant change in the percent of Proposed Standards that move up the (shorter) standards track since the proposal does nothing to cha

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves them, and thereby improves the odds. 2) It is coupled to an inten

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread John Leslie
Pete Resnick wrote: > > I *really* want an answer to the issue that Scott raises. Eric and Brian > each refer to a "baby step". A baby step toward what exactly? > > If the answer is simply, "to align documentation with current > procedure", that's fine, but then I want to know: > a) Why is it

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Pete, On 2011-07-31 04:55, Pete Resnick wrote: ... > I *really* want an answer to the issue that Scott raises. Eric and Brian > each refer to a "baby step". A baby step toward what exactly? > > If the answer is simply, "to align documentation with current > procedure", that's fine, but then I

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 31st July 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote, in part: > I believe that the present situation is confusing both to IETF newcomers > (who may falsely believe that the IETF actually follows the 3 stage process) > and, worse, confusing to users of IETF standards (who may falsely believe > that a document

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread Eric Burger
On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:55 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote: > On 31st July 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote, in part: [snip] >> It might cause a change, simply because the effort of making the single >> move PS->IS will get you to the end state, whereas previously you had >> to make two efforts, PS->DS->STD. But

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread Scott O Bradner
it looks so - maybe it would be good to have a pointer in this doc Scott On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Sparks wrote: > Scott - > > Didn't RFC 5657 address your point 2? > > The current proposal no longer requires this report during advancement, but > it does not disallow it. > I hope it

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/30/11 11:05 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: > It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. > 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they > are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to > be used, but it improves them, and thereb

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-02 Thread John C Klensin
On 7/30/11 11:05 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: > It seems to me that this does two things, both small but > useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement > procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still > not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves > them, and the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
With mild apologies, I have retained John's text below because, even though I come to a different conclusion, I thought it important to retain for now. If folks choose to follow up on this, significant trimming is recommended. John, as far as I can tell there are three problems which various

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 20:23 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: > With mild apologies, I have retained John's text below > because, even though I come to a different conclusion, I > thought it important to retain for now. If folks choose to > follow up on this, significant trimming is recom

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-19 Thread Dave CROCKER
Russ, Thanks for reviving this topic. As the YAM working group has been finding, trying to elevate even the most well-established and widely-used protocols to Full standard remains problematic. As your Acknowledgments section cites, your proposal nicely adds to the considerable repertoire

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-20 Thread SM
At 23:10 19-06-10, Dave CROCKER wrote: Thanks for reviving this topic. As the YAM working group has been finding, trying to elevate even the most well-established and widely-used protocols to Full standard remains problematic. It is problematic because there isn't any consensus on what an In

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 20/Jun/10 11:53, SM wrote: The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require implementation and/or operational experience prior to granting Proposed Standard status". Implementors do not treat Proposed Standards as imma

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
OK, we really do seem determined to relive the early 2000s... It seems to me that abolishing the third level is possible, now, because the handling of I-Ds has been enhanced. IMHO, it is an advantage to require some experience before giving an I-D the rank of Proposed Standard. Because I-Ds

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Russ Housley
Yaron: > In general, I think this is a good idea. It might succeed in reviving > the notion of formal interoperability reports. A few comments though: > > - Sec. 2 mentions that the criteria for Proposed Standard will not > change. But the preceding section just described that our criteria (or >

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: The questions that you raise will be discussed for 30 minutes at the front of the Wednesday plenary at IETF 78. The next step is to find out what the community thinks about these choices. I fully expect there to be changes to the draft after that discussion. As you say, we really want to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
Russ I strongly support this approach. In particular I think the downward ref relaxation is of great value as chair of WG with with 30+ RFC's at PS and advancing them in order or RFC's up the standards track vs. advancing the ones that are important will hopefully be the happy consequence of a

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Rex
Dave CROCKER wrote: > > Interoperability testing used to be an extremely substantial demonstration > of industry interest and of meaningful learning. The resulting repair and > streamlining of specifications was signficant. If that's still happening, > I've been missing the reports about lessons

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 6/20/10 6:01 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 20/Jun/10 11:53, SM wrote: > >> This proposal removes Draft Standard and Internet Standard and replaces >> it with Interoperable Standard. I won't quibble over the choice of the >> name yet. > > If there are two levels and the first one is "Propose

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require implementation and/or operational experience prior to granting Proposed Standard status". Well, they do not /always/ require it. Tha

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Scott Lawrence
On 2010-06-20 10:41, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require implementation and/or operational experience prior to granting Proposed Standard status". We

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread John Leslie
Dave CROCKER wrote: > On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: > >> The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational >> experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require >> implementation and/or operational experience prior to granting Proposed >> Standard status". That's ne

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:12 PM -0400 6/21/10, Scott Lawrence wrote: >On 2010-06-20 10:41, Dave CROCKER wrote: >> >> >>On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: >>>The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational >>>experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require >>>implementation and/or operational

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Bernard Aboba
Russ, I'd also like to think you for revisiting this topic. I support the recommendation to eliminate the "Standard" maturity level, and also agree with your recommendation on Maturity Level 2 (similar to Draft Standard). We need more thought on what to do with the other levels though

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Michael StJohns
I think its a good idea to readdress this. Part of the issue with the current system, is that there is both no great benefit to advancing a standard to the next level for the advocates, and no real downside to not advancing it. In many cases, having gone through the pain of getting to RFC stat

RE: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Ross Callon
The only thing that I disagree with in the draft is the term "interoperable standard". Looking at each change in a bit more detail: - Two levels of standards rather than three: I strongly support this. It is pretty clear that in most cases people don't bother with the effort to move past Pr

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread SM
At 05:01 20-06-10, Alessandro Vesely wrote: pay to source routing decreases over time. There is no reason why a new RFC aimed at reviewing a mature spec would need to reduce its maturity level, if it accomplishes the current requirements for third level. I hope this point will be made clearer

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Yoav Nir
I don't think I agree with this. On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > > I would prefer if the IETF retains the third level and puts an emphasis > on cutting down on protocol feature bloat when going from draft to > full standard. You want to be very careful cutting down on feature bl

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Yoav Nir
I like this proposal, but there should be a (relatively) easy process to advance from Experimental to Proposed, especially if implementation experience shows no need for bits-on-the-wire changes. We should be able to say that for a particular experimental RFC there have been this many independe

RE: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Bernard Aboba
heckpoint.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:00 AM To: Bernard Aboba Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00 I like this proposal, but there should be a (relatively) easy process to advance from Experimental to Proposed, especially if implementation experience sh

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
In reply to a number of different threads: * This proposal, however flawed some might think it is is certainly a much better description of current practice than the process document. It is a fact that almost every 'IETF Standard' of any consequence was developed before the first meeting of the I

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 6/21/2010 5:45 PM, Martin Rex wrote: I would prefer if the IETF retains the third level and puts an emphasis on cutting down on protocol feature bloat when going from draft to full standard. OK. All you need is to develop an IETF rough consensus in support of that change. d/ -- Dave

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 6/21/2010 5:57 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Here's an idea: 1. The first level is simply "Request for Comments". Once an RFC is published, we start to gather comments. Peter, How is that different from an Internet Draft? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
I disagree. For changes such as DNSSEC there is no way to move as many parts of the industry as need to be involved with an Internet draft. Microsoft is not going to implement a draft in Windows Server, neither is Apple. Operational experience in this case means at a minimum taking two conformant

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Polk, William T.
On 6/21/10 1:12 PM, "Scott Lawrence" wrote: > On 2010-06-20 10:41, Dave CROCKER wrote: >> >> >> On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: >>> The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational >>> experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require >>> implementation and/or operati

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Another thing to consider here is the point at which code points are assigned. In a lot of cases we have had incompatibility resulting from experimental code points being used and then changed when the final draft is agreed. For some spaces code points are scarce and it is necessary to conserve.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Feature 'bloat' in PKIX is largely due to the fact that the features have already been accepted in the ITU version of the spec that is being profiled. But the other reason is that the original PKIX core did not cover the full set of requirements and that these were added as additional protocols in

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread RJ Atkinson
All, I support this change, as written in Russ's draft. This is not a surprise, as I've proposed this kind of change myself in the past (as have several other folks). I see various people quibbling about aspects of this proposal, but I haven't seen any serious defence of the obviously broken (i.e

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread RJ Atkinson
Earlier, Mike StJohns wrote: > One side note - MIBs. > > MIBs by their nature are actually collections of mini-standards > - the objects. Once an object is defined and published in a > non-transitional document (RFC), the OID associated with that > object is pretty much stuck with that defin

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Rex
RJ Atkinson wrote: > > Rather than quibble about the details of this, I'd > urge folks to support the move to 2-track. > > If it becomes clear later, after experience with 2-track, > that 2-track needs to be further refined later, then > the community can always do that. In the meantime, it >

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Russ Housley
I agree with these comments, and I'll tackle them in -01 of the draft. Russ On 6/20/2010 5:53 AM, SM wrote: > In Section 6: > > 'The current rule prohibiting "down references" is a major cause >of stagnation in the advancement of documents.' > > There isn't any current rule that prohibits

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Russ Housley
We often replace a Proposed Standard with an updated document that remains at the Proposed Standard maturity level. There does not seem to be confusion when this happens. Russ On 6/20/2010 8:01 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> "In several situations, a Standard is obsoleted by a Proposed Standard

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Russ Housley
Dave & Scott: >> On 6/20/2010 11:53 AM, SM wrote: >>> The reader will note that neither implementation nor operational >>> experience is required. In practice, the IESG does "require >>> implementation and/or operational experience prior to granting Proposed >>> Standard status". >> >> >> Well, th

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Russ Housley
>I'm willing to be corrected: does anyone want to document a single > case where this was required _by_the_IESG_ in the last two years? I only know of one case where it was even discussed. The IESG felt that it was necessary to tell the WG that such a requirement was needed in their charter.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-22 Thread Russ Housley
Bernard: > In practice, we often see a document initial go to Proposed Standard, > then go through a “bis” to enable clarifications and interop improvements. > > Often these changes are too substantial to enable advancement to Draft, > but they nevertheless represent an important advancement in s

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-23 Thread Jari Arkko
John, That's news to me: I can't recall any recent discusses calling for operational experience before publishing as Proposed Standard. Some years ago, there was such a requirement for Routing Area, but that was declared obsolete. (In actuality, there seems to still be a somewhat informal requi

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-23 Thread Jari Arkko
Yoav, I like this proposal, but there should be a (relatively) easy process to advance from Experimental to Proposed, especially if implementation experience shows no need for bits-on-the-wire changes. We should be able to say that for a particular experimental RFC there have been this many i

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-23 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Jari, We should be able to say that for a particular experimental RFC there have been this many independent implementation, and they interoperate OK, and only so-and-so clarifications need to be added, and the document is ready for "Proposed". I think we already have that. There is reall

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-23 Thread Jari Arkko
Spencer, As I read http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5741.txt, Experimental RFCs would be Category: Experimental on the first page, and I'd expect them to be revised when they are reclassified, if only to make this say Category: Standards Track. So that's at least a small barrier to reclassifi

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-23 Thread Jari Arkko
I'm with Ran and others who stated that best is the enemy of good in this case. I think Russ' draft is a step in the right direction and will reduce complexity and effort. An incremental improvement. We should adopt it in Maastricht. And lets avoid too much fine-tuning or fragmentation of the p

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-23 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: This observation was based on many hallway discussions with many people over many years. You are correct to observe that there are many factors at play, and many of them were discussed at the mic in plenary. The draft changes process in many different places. I've attempted to balance man

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
Russ, In reading the latest version of your proposal, I finally realized that a motivating premise: o Since many documents are published as Proposed Standard and never advances to a higher maturity level, the initial publication receives much more scrutiny that is call for by

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-24 Thread Russ Housley
I strongly disagree with this characterization. In my view, too many things got bundled together, and the thing that was unacceptable too the whole bundle down. Russ On 6/24/2010 2:52 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Last time the reforms were blocked without the IETF at large even > knowing wh

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Russ Housley
Phillip: Obviously, I was not General AD when this happened. However, I was Security AD at the time, so I was involved in the discussions that included the whole IESG. I made my reply to your posting because I want people to realize that there is another side to the story. We need to learn from

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-25 Thread Scott Lawrence
Scott Lawrence wrote: The main drawback of this would be > that a document would sometimes need to exist for longer as an I-D while > implementations are developed, but balancing that is the fact that those > implementations would then inform the first RFC version rather than some > subsequ

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I've mentioned this to Russ privately, but it's worth saying it out loud ... Phillip: Obviously, I was not General AD when this happened. However, I was Security AD at the time, so I was involved in the discussions that included the whole IESG. I made my reply to your posting because I want

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> The ISD proposal > required the IESG spend a lot of time that the individuals simply did > not have. so the IESG insisted - that was not the opinion of the newtrk chair (who thought that ISDs would likely reduce the load on ADs > Further, this came at a very, very bad time and that, apparently

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
It seems to me that we hit a vicious circle in which the lack of standards progressing beyond proposed has meant that proposed standard has been considered sufficiently advanced for adoption leading to more people worrying about rough edges in proposed standards and demanding more complete document

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
My point is that I am unable to have any characterization whatsoever since nobody has ever told me the reason that the changes did not go ahead. And since I have asked for reasons in a plenary and never got any statement that was not phrased in the passive voice, I don't think it is unfair to desc

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Yes, I agree that the IETF has become a lot more open than the self-perpetuating cabal that ran it during the mid 90s. We no have de-facto term limits for ADs and it is no longer considered acceptable for an AD to chair a working group (excepting process related groups chaired by the IETF chair).

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-06-26 02:49, Russ Housley wrote: > Phillip: > > Obviously, I was not General AD when this happened. However, I was > Security AD at the time, so I was involved in the discussions that > included the whole IESG. > > I made my reply to your posting because I want people to realize that > t

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-28 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
One approach that may help avoid that blockage is to use a Quaker poll. [Yes, Yes, consensus, blah, blah] At the moment the mode of discourse is that everyone proposes their preferred solution. So the clear consensus that the three step process is not being applied is lost because everyone is en

RE: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-28 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Scott Lawrence wrote: > I think that a different numbering series needs to be created so that > 'RFC' means what most people (incorrectly) think that it means now: that > something is a standard that has passed the IETF review and approval > process. I think this is far too late. Come what may,

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread RJ Atkinson
The last *several* revisions have been perfectly fine. The most recent edits are also fine. We're micro-editing this document at this point, meaning that "perfect" is impeding our ability to deploy "more than good enough" to replace 3-tier system that most IETF folks agree is broken, and has

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Julian Reschke
On 06.04.2011 17:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 4/6/11 10:45 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 06.04.2011 17:27, Russ Housley wrote: >> This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian >> Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people >> thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The >> propo

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Housley
Julian: > A question...: > >> A specification shall remain at the Proposed Standard maturity level >> for at least six (6) months before consideration for advancement to >> the Internet Standard maturity level. > > It would probably good to clarify when the six month period starts (IESG >

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Russ" == Russ Housley writes: Russ> The 6 months starts with RFC publication. Please say that in the draft then. I had a different take away from the last version of this discussion I participated in. I don't care much what the answer is, but it seems clear that it requires documenta

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Housley
Sam and Julian: >> "Russ" == Russ Housley writes: > > >Russ> The 6 months starts with RFC publication. > > Please say that in the draft then. > I had a different take away from the last version of this discussion I > participated in. > I don't care much what the answer is, but it seem

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-07 03:27, Russ Housley wrote: > This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter > about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a > problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the > matter in the hands o

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-07 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the IES

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-07 Thread Russ Housley
Mykyta: If this approach is acceptable to the community, implementation reports will no longer be needed at all. Russ On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > 06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: >> This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter >>

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-07 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
2011/4/7, Russ Housley : > Mykyta: > > If this approach is acceptable to the community, implementation reports will > no longer be needed at all. > In this case your document should obsolete RFC 5657 and mention this. Mykyta > > Russ > > > On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > >

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-17 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the IES

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-18 Thread Russ Housley
Mykyta: >> 4. Downward References Permitted > This section says nothing about references to documents with no status > ("pre-IETF" RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be > allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967 procedure will > be used in such cases,

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
19.04.2011 1:21, Russ Housley wrote: Mykyta: 4. Downward References Permitted This section says nothing about references to documents with no status ("pre-IETF" RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967 procedur

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Russ Housley
Mykyta: 4. Downward References Permitted >>> This section says nothing about references to documents with no status >>> ("pre-IETF" RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be >>> allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967 procedure >>> will be used in s

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 4/19/11 9:57 AM, Russ Housley wrote: > Mykyta: > > 4. Downward References Permitted This section says nothing about references to documents with no status ("pre-IETF" RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be allowed. And what about normative ones? Wheth

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/5/2011 10:22 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On balance, whilst I appreciate the aims of this document, I think the proposals are not suitable for adoption. 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifically, are the parts of the proposal that you believe

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/5/2011 10:22 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On balance, whilst I appreciate the aims of this document, I think the proposals are not suitable for adoption. 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifi

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 1:31 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifically, are the parts of the proposal that you believe will lower the quality of a Proposed Standard? The parts unmenti

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:08:54AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > >The parts unmentioned in the document, in effect. ^^^ > You appear to be saying that the new document lowers quality by > continuing to use the same basic criteria and qualifiers for > Proposed that we've use

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Scott Brim
Dave: the issue is that PS was previously not seen as a finished product, now it has much more exalted status, but the criteria have not changed. On May 6, 2011 11:09 AM, "Dave CROCKER" wrote: > > > On 5/6/2011 1:31 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: >> On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Martin Rex
I am strongly opposed to this 2 document maturity level proposal. The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. Dave Cridland wrote: > > Dave CROCKER wro

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 9:15 AM, Martin Rex wrote: The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. That seems particularly true about possible changes to RFC 2026.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria are the running code, so the documentation ought to be made to match. Oh. But then that doesn't mean that the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:27:16AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > >I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are > >neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria > >are the running code, so the documenta

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, May 06, 2011 18:15 +0200 Martin Rex wrote: > The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are > constituencies that will fight hard against specifications > getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been > published as RFC. Martin, That is an interesting observatio

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 17:50:07 2011, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:27:16AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > >I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are > >neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that th

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Martin, I think you may actually be arguing for a 1 step process. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John Levine
>I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are >neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria >are the running code, so the documentation ought to be made to match. This suggests that perhaps we should rename "Proposed Standard" to "Not a Standard But

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Barry Leiba
> This suggests that perhaps we should rename "Proposed Standard" to > "Not a Standard But Might Be One Later," promote the PS published > under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. > > I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or not.., the only way to do this is to stop cal

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John R. Levine
This suggests that perhaps we should rename "Proposed Standard" to "Not a Standard But Might Be One Later," promote the PS published under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or not.., the only way to do this is to stop calling th

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