Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06)

John C Klensin klensin at jck.com
Mon Dec 8 01:27:01 CET 2008


Hi.

A new version of Protocol, draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-08, is in
the posting queue.  Versions of Defs (-04) and Rationale (06)
will follow soon, but not necessarily today.   I may or may not
post separate comments / announcements about these drafts when
they appear.

For each of these documents, if you have raised an issue and not
gotten an explicit response to the note in which it was raised,
please check to be sure that your comments were reflected
somehow and inquire if they were not.  I've tried to be careful,
but would not be surprised if one or two notes accidentally fell
through the cracks.

Three general observations:

* Several of the bits of Defs (definitions and surrounding
material) have been reworked and an illustration has been added
about the relationships among the various terms.  There are some
dependencies in Protocol on those new definitions so, if
something in Protocol-08 seems both new and strange, you might
want to wait until you've seen Defs-04 before commenting.

* These documents do not reflect the recent extensive "digits"
discussion.   Definitions and Protocol are not affected by it
one way or the other (from a protocol standpoint, the
consequences are entirely in Bidi and Tables).  Rationale is
affected, but I believe that the opportunity for the WG to
comment, and the editor's sanity, are better served by seeing if
we can move closer to a base document on which we can agree and
then add that material, rather than trying to add both sets of
changes at once.   That implies that, assuming the WG can reach
some sort of rough consensus, you can expect to see Rationale-07
before the end of the calendar year.

* As noted separately, I have not reorganized any Security
Consideration material pending comments from the Security ADs.

     john



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