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

[Vint Cerf]

John,

many thanks for your patience and persistence. I hope this version  
can bring us to consensus.

vint


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On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:27 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

> 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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