The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Requirements for an IETF Draft Submission Toolset '
<draft-ietf-tools-draft-submission-09.txt> as an Informational RFC
This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group.
The IESG contact person is Brian Carpenter.
Technical Summary
This document specifies requirements for a toolset to support Internet-Draft
submission, validation and posting.
TOOLS Team Summary
This is the result of discussion in the TOOLS team and significant public
comment during IETF Last Call. The requirements and their priorities represent
rough consensus among the participants.
Technical Quality
Brian Carpenter reviewed the specification. It has not been implemented but
appears to be implementable.
Note to RFC Editor
In Section 6. Overall Toolset operation:
OLD:
The Toolset sources should be publicly available (R152/b) under a
license certified by the Open Source Initiative [OSI] (R144/a), with
an interface to report bugs and request enhancements (R145/b). These
requirements are meant to enable the Toolset transfer from one
management team to another and to allow for public review and
contribution. To meaningfully satisfy these availability
requirements, the Toolset has to implement the required functionality
without relying on software with different availability conditions.
NEW:
It must be possible to transfer the Toolset from one management
team to another, to incorporate work by volunteers, and to allow
for public review of the developed code. To meet these goals, the Toolset
source codes should be publicly available (R152/b) and there
should be an interface to report bugs and request enhancements (R145/b).
Development should be structured to avoid lock-in to proprietary
platforms or backends. The tools team believes that developing
the Toolset sources under one or more open source licenses
following the Open Source Definition [OSD] would provide an
effective way of meeting these requirements at reasonable
cost. Care should be taken that the licenses selected allow code
from different implementers to be mixed.
Under Informative References:
OLD:
[OSI] "Open Source Licenses Approved by the Open Source
Initiative", 2004.
NEW:
[OSD] "The Open Source Definition, version 1.9", Open
Source Initiative, 2005, available at
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
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