--On Monday, 02 September, 2024 13:41 +0900 "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2024-08-30 05:32, John C Klensin wrote: > >> Assuming Dan is right about timing (I did an independent >> search some days ago and found nothing inconsistent with his >> remarks), your comment and the above might argue for >> approving the I-D, publishing the document action, but >> deferring publication until there is a final IEEE date, not >> just optimism about the end of the year. > > There's lots about standards publication timing that can > change, but to me, it looks as if the 'November/December of > 2024' publication timing of IEEE Std 802.11-202x could be very > close to the publication timing of the RFC resulting from this > draft. Almost certain the case that, if it is not published late this year, it will be early next. > So why not add a reference to that standard (rather than just > to the WG responsible for it) in the draft at hand, and > instruct the RFC editor to publish the RFC when that standard > is published. More or less what I suggested as an option above, so "yes". > Not something that may be repeatable in all similar cases in > the future, but we shouldn't expect future similar cases to > all be exactly the same anyway. While I continue to believe that we should make provisions to regularize "similar cases", I don't believe that discussion should hold up processing this draft as a more-or-less special case. best, john -- last-call mailing list -- last-call@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to last-call-leave@xxxxxxxx