Consensus Call Tranche 2 (Document Groupings) Summary

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Tue Oct 21 06:30:57 CEST 2008


Consensus Call Tranche 2 (Document Groupings) Summary

YES - 17
NO - 0

We have consensus on document groups as proposed below. See comments  
for some discussion but I don't see any strong objections to the  
propositions below.


(2) Document Groupings


(2.a) The list of contextual rules and their values, including the  
associated IANA Considerations material, should be in Tables, not  
Rationale, Protocol, or elsewhere.  (R.8, P.1)

(2.b) Protocol and Tables should not be combined, for reasons  
discussed extensively on the mailing list.

(2.c) Protocol and Bidi should not be combined because the subject  
matter is rather different, as discussed extensively on the mailing  
list.

COMMENTS:

Specifically, I want the normative definitions be in the documents,  
and not by actions (of any kind) that IANA does.

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I think 2.b and 2.c are easy to agree with.  For 2.a, contextual rules
may be useful to discuss in Protocol too, and to the point where it may
make sense to duplicate parts of the rules.  On the other hand, that
wouldn't be a big problem anyway.
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I don't think any of these are controversial, let's concentrate
on the real work we still have to do.
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none of these seem particularly
controversial.
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The contextual rules should definitely be moved into Tables.

I could live either with Protocol, Bidi, and Tables as 3 documents or  
as one. At this point, however, it does not seem worth the effort to  
combine them.
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Assuming we are going to keep the Bidi document (I recall there was a
suggestion to drop it by someone), I don't object to keeping it
separate.

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Whilst the structure of the information is important, the list  
discussions have gone on ad-infinitum. It is clear that everyone has  
their own view, however, this structure seems logical, or at least  
more logical than others.
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