I see that we have been granted a fortnight to review eight, inter-related, httpbis I-Ds, comprising over 300 pages, ending in the course of IETF88 and in the run-up to a meeting when everyone comes out of aestivation and the mailing lists are inundated. Seems like a DoS attack to me. Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "The IESG" <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> To: "IETF-Announce" <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf-http-wg@xxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 2:25 PM Subject: Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-08.txt>(Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) AuthenticationScheme Registrations) to Informational RFC > > The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis > WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: > - 'Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme > Registrations' > <draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-08.txt> as 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 > ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2013-11-04. Exceptionally, comments may be > sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. > > Abstract > > > This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) > authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track > RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was > established. > > > Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed together: > > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache > * draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth > * draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations > * draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations > > The file can be obtained via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrati ons/ > > Once IESG evaluation begins, IESG discussion can be tracked via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrati ons/ballot/ > > No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. >