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Hi everyone, I’d like to support the notion that standards levels for
RFCs simply do not matter. In my own domain (IPsec), we try to spend time on
keeping the protocol viable (by adding useful stuff and trying to avoid cruft)
rather than working on mostly pointless PS->DS->FS projects. Whether we’re
doing a good job is for others to judge… On the other hand, I think we’re not doing well on the other
side of the spectrum, Internet Drafts. The industry and even other SDOs (3GPP
is a case in point) are too happy to implement expired drafts, which as we know
may be lower quality, less secure, and/or non-interoperable. In fact in recent
years we have made it even easier to access and use long expired drafts, and
this is hurting us. I’d like to make two related proposals to deal with this
issue: -
Make the “tools”
URL for an I-D into the mainstream way to access I-Ds. Specifically, include
this URL in the I-D announcement mail. This would have the benefit of pointing
people to related RFCs and to relevant IPR statements. -
Only non-expired
drafts should be directly accessible from the tools area, or in fact have a
stable IETF URL. Expired drafts will still be kept around, but will require a
(freely available) “tools” login. So non-IETFers will have to spend 5 minutes’
effort to reach them. This would go a long way towards having I-Ds as temporary
documents, like they used to be, while still letting us work with the old
documents when necessary. Thanks, Yaron |
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