On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the IS-IS for IP Internets WG
(isis) to consider the following document:
- 'IS-IS Extensions for Advertising Router Information '
<draft-ietf-isis-caps-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document has a normative reference to two informational RFCs,
3567 and 3784. These are part of a group of informational RFCs that
were published as informational instead of standards-track for
historical reasons, and there is current work in progress to advance
them to standards track.
...
This comment applies to all the three IS-IS documents currently in
Last Call.
As far as I can see, there is no significant work in progress (as
visible to an outsider) to move the underlying Informational RFCs
forward at all: no drafts. I can see that there was some discussion
on the list in January but that's it. Given the usual pace IS-IS WG
takes in moving documents from draft to RFC (5 years +/- 3 years) this
move would take years.
AFAICS, there is no harm in the 3 drafts being drafts until their
dependencies are sorted out. On the other hand, not publishing them
as RFCs may motivate the WG to actually work on the standarzation of
IS-IS base specifications at a reasonable pace. There is also a
possibility that a specification would need to be changed when
standardized so that it might affect one of these 3 specifications.
As such I do not support approving these documents at this time.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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