On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:22 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 18, 2022, at 7:58 AM, Ron Even <ron.
even. > wrote:tlv@ gmail. com 1. whis is this an informational RFC and not a standard track RFC.
That's a reasonable question with a simple answer: because the WG changed its mind on what the status of this protocol should be. RFC 5933 describes a national standard that is thinly deployed. At the time, it was necessary to have the protocol on standards track; now it no longer is required.
One or two people had also poked me off-list, asking if the process allows for an informational document to update a non-informational document. This appears to be fully allowed by process (and I had checked before advancing the document).
I checked on a few documents which Update other documents, and here is a selection of prior instances where this was done.
RFC2026 - "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3" (BCP) was updated by both
RFC7841 - "RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates" (Informational) and RFC3669 - "Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property Issues" (Informational)
RFC9120 - "Nameservers for the Address and Routing Parameter Area ("arpa") Domain" (Info) updates RFC3172 - "Management Guidelines \& Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa") (Best Current Practice)
RFC7722 - "Multi-Topology Extension for the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2)" (Exp) updates both RFC7188 - "Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2) and MANET Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) Extension TLVs" (Standards Track)
and RFC7631 - "TLV Naming in the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Generalized Packet/Message Format" (Standards Track)
RFC7419 - "Common Interval Support in Bidirectional Forwarding Detection" (Informational) updates RFC5880 - "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)" (Standards Track).
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2. What is requested from IANA. ths text you wrote and I copied is not a directive to IANA that is clear
You are correct that the IANA Considerations section is quite unclear, and needs to be clarified before the IESG considers it.
--Paul Hoffman
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