Re: [sidr] Last Call: <draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11.txt> (An Infrastructure to

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(not speaking for the authors, just observing some... also not
speaking as a co-chair)

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, t.petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I find this I-D problematic.  The subject matter is of crucial importance,
> comparable to, or perhaps more important than, IPv6, yet this I-D is not
> an easy read and there should be one such somewhere.
>

I thought there was to be an overview doc as well produced, with the
goal being to lay out the basic parts referring to the other drafts
for further info/expansion.

> sidr has produced an awesome collection of I-Ds (some now obsolete) but it is
> not obvious, short of spending a few months in the archives, how they fit
> together.  Other major projects - snmp for example - produced an Introduction,
> acting as a starting point and a road map to the other I-Ds and I think that
> that should be a prerequisite for sidr.  This I-D is not it (even if it could
> be); its Normative
> References include a further 80 pages of sidr I-Ds!
>
> One small example.  The I-Ds have several references to RPKI and indeed, that
> appears in -arch; but it first appears on page 8 and is not even expanded, let

eh.. that's a nit that someone should file... "hey, you can't use an
acronym for the first time without actually expanding it properly!"

Can you cite the proper para/page/section on this so the authors can fix it?

-Chris

> alone explained.  Of course you can turn to Wikipedia and you find a clear
> explanation of what RPKI is but you should not need Wikipedia to understand
> something as important as sidr.  This I-D seems to be written to be understood
> by those who understand it:-(
>
> Tom Petch
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:14 PM
> Subject: [sidr] Last Call: <draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11.txt> (An Infrastructure to
>
>
>>
>> The IESG has received a request from the Secure Inter-Domain Routing WG
>> (sidr) to consider the following document:
>> - 'An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing'
>>   <draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11.txt> as an Informational RFC
>>
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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>>
>> The file can be obtained via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-arch/
>>
>> IESG discussion can be tracked via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-arch/
>>
>>
>>
>> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
>>
>> /ipr/1204/
>>
>
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