Bill, the thing that can create unbounded delay on RFC publication is a normative reference to work in progress. But apart from that, it's dangerous to generalize. For many years, the RFC Editor has only had complete discretion for non-IETF documents (for which there is now a 4 week timeout on the IESG review, see RFC 3932).
Brian
Bill Manning wrote:
perhaps.... but i think (based on personal experience w/ the "discover" draft
first submitted in 1998 - still in "process") that the reason for the increased
"slowness" in getting documents through the RFC Editor is the extra-ordinary
burden placed on the RFC editor staff to coordinate w/ and through the
IETF's IAB/IESG functions and the creation of onerous "objective" checks
that must be done before the RFC editor can proceed with document
publication. Historically, the RFC editor had broad subjective power to
publish or not - since the community then trusted the technical grounding of
the RFC editor. The Editor has not changed - the community has lost trust in
the RFC editor to do the proper/correct thing and tries to "second-guess" the
RFC editor at every step of the way... which is the real reason for the extra-long
time it takes to get a document published.
IMHO, if the RFC editor was given the same latitude it had in 1997, publication would
take weeks, not months or years. of course YMMV.
--bill
On May 15, 2005, at 4:55, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
This would be a good topic for the newtrk WG, I think, since it is so specific.
Brian
James M. Polk wrote:
At 08:22 PM 5/14/2005 -0400, Will McAfee wrote:
I think the minimum time before a document can pass to another standards-track state is ridiculously long. If an rfc is huge, I can understand that. But to sweep that over all of them? A two-page proposed standard can take an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to pass through!
each of the normative references need to be at that higher level too though... even for your 2 page PS-RFC
I say we have variations based on how long the document is.
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