Re: Publishing call for discussion?

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On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:


On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:31 59PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
On 04/18/2010 06:58 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
Is there a standard way to publish a "call for discussion" memo?
Yes, an internet-draft, perhaps containg prose such as "this draft is intended to initiate discussion. At this time, the author does not intend it to reach RFC status." A little later, a "BOF session invitation" serves some of the same purposes.

Thanks for the info. I'm reading the documents to figure out how IETF process works...

So basically, you write an I-D, send it to RFC editor. It gets published, people discuss it. Later on it expires and is removed.

Not quite -- the RFC editor gets involved only when the decision has been made to publish it as an RFC.

You submit I-Ds via https://datatracker.ietf.org/idst/upload.cgi; as long as you meet the publication requirements (formatting, boilerplate, etc.) and don't name is as a working group draft without the consent of the chairs, publication is more or less automatic. After it appears, I'd advise you send a message to the appropriate mailing list -- a WG list, for example -- pointing it out to people.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


Dear Martin;

You should read the "Tao of the IETF."

Note that Internet Drafts ("I-Ds") are ephemeral - "publishing" just means "appears as a draft," and, yes, that's pretty automatic.

What most people think of as publishing is done when I-Ds become Requests for Comments (RFCs), and that is by no means automatic.

Regards
Marshall






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