The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues ' <draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpimpguide-16.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpimpguide-16.txt Technical Summary This document is a compilation of issues found during six interoperability events and 5 years of experience with implementing, testing, and using SCTP along with the suggested fixes. This document provides deltas to RFC 2960 and is organized in a time based way. Each section describes a problem that was found, details of the solution, and the snapshot of textual changes or delta for that problem solution. The issues are listed in the order they were found or brought up. The document provides a history of errata and deltas, and therefore some text is changed several times. The detailed process of deriving 2960bis from the present document is not discussed in this document. Working Group Summary The working group reviewed the proposal to publish this Informational record of the issues and fixes to RFC 2960 in this form and gave consent to this plan. The rationale for publishing it was to cap revisions to the long and complex RFC 2960 document when the bis effort is undertaken - this document will be available as the limit on the normative corrections, corrections that have been discovered and vetted in interop testing and extensive review. The Responsible Area Director (also a Chair) did question the intended status as Informational, since some of the text changes will eventually modify a Proposed Standard document, RFC 2960. The working group was not supportive of the document as a Proposed Standard; the WGLC for the document was for an Informational, because that was the request made by the authors, and when the AD and the non-AD Chair proposed a WGLC for PS, there were a few vocal objectors, including the Editor. Nevertheless, since RFC 2026 gives the IESG the discretion to modify intended status of documents as required, the Responsible AD decided to give the document an IETF Last Call as Proposed Standard just in case, while still asking the IESG to review the document as Informational as the WG wished. If the IESG viewed the document as requiring standards track status, it would have been possible to consider tht switch further. The IESG agreed after a short discussion that the document could remain as an Informational. Protocol Quality On a number of the deltas, there was considerable review and discussion, so that not only running code, but also detailed protocol review was taken into account, and the working group's comments led to new tests and revision of the deltas. The Responsible Area Director is Allison Mankin. The WG Chair shepherd is James Polk. Note to RFC Editor Omit reference [2], RFC 2026, from being a citation and from the normative references. Abstract OLD: Because some text is changed several times the last delta in the text is the one which should be applied. NEW: Because some text is changed several times, the last delta in the document is the erratum for that text in RFC 2960. 1. Introduction OLD: Note that when reading this document one must use care to assure that a field or item is not updated further on within the document. Each section should be applied in sequence to the original RFC2960 [7] since this document is a historical record of the sequential changes that have been found necessary at various inter-op events and through discussion on the list. NEW: This document is a historical record of sequential changes what have been found necessary at various interop events and through discussion on this list. Note that because some text is changed several times, the last delta for a text in the document is the erratum for that text in RFC 2960. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
