Re: Discussing a DISCUSS - down-refs in draft-ietf-yam-rfc4409bis-02

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--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 18:02 -0400 Sam Hartman
<hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>>>> "SM" == SM  <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>     SM> There is currently a DISCUSS for
> draft-ietf-yam-rfc4409bis-02:     SM> <process weenie="">
> 
>     SM> The IETF LC
>     SM>
> (https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=934&k2=96
> 80&tid=1314107697)     SM> did not call out the downrefs to
> RFC 4954 and 5321.  There is no     SM> doubt in my mind that
> no one will object to these downrefs, but     SM> they need to
> be explicitly called out in the IETF LC.
>...
  
> Hey, I think I read RFC 4897 once.
> Someone's actually trying to use that? Who knew!
> 
> Seriously, section 3.1 of RFC 4897 makes it clear that an RFC
> 4897 downward reference does not need an RFC 3967-style
> comment in the IETF last call.  As best I can tell, this
> discuss should be cleared because The AD is confused about
> what BCP is being applied here.
> 
> Really this is one of those situations where we're all sitting
> around the table playing a nice game of "publish that doc" and
> people have to get out their copy of the IETF rules, the IETF
> rules erata and the IETF player's magazine articles with rules
> commentary and figure out what is going on.:-)

As someone else who read 4897 once or twice, and independent of
my role as co-editor of the draft in question,

+1.

    john




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