The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of IPFIX Information Elements' (draft-ietf-ipfix-ie-doctors-07.txt) as Best Current Practice This document is the product of the IP Flow Information Export Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ronald Bonica and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipfix-ie-doctors/ Technical Summary This document provides guidelines for the definition of IPFIX Information Elements for addition to the IANA IPFIX Information Element registry, in order to extend the applicability of the IPFIX protocol to new operations and management areas. Working Group Summary This draft has been discussed already at WG sessions and on the mailing list for along time before adopting it as WG work item. There was strong consensus on the need for such a document and on the general content. Details has been discussed extensively. WGLC was conducted in February 2012. Raise issues in the LC Phase were discussed and fixed. Document Quality This BCP for IPFIX IE doctors summarizes experiences gained in several years of dealing with new proposals for IEs. Personnel By default, Benoit Claise would be the responsible area director. But since Benoit Claise is co-author of the draft, the responsible area director is Ron Bonica. Document shepherd is Juergen Quittek.
