Re: Opsdir last call review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-errata-06

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The process used by SCTP is described in the shepherd write up.

Gorry

> On 11 Jun 2018, at 11:49, Jürgen Schönwälder <j.schoenwaelder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Jürgen Schönwälder
> Review result: Has Issues
> 
> Let me start this way: I am impressed that tsvwg is able to produce such a
> document. I understand that there is a precedence, namely RFC 4460. While
> keeping a record of changes is extremely useful, it is not clear whether it is
> valuable to go through the effort to publish them as RFCs. (In other WGs,  
> issue lists like these are often maintained outside the RFC process.)
> 
> Given the number ~50 issues, it is really important to have an RFC 4960bis     
> but I do not see such a document anywhere. This concerns me. Do we really help
> implementors if they have to extract patches from ~80 pages of text to apply
> them        to RFC 4960? Several issues have already been reported as errata.
> Why are errata         not found to be sufficient until RFC 4960bis is produced?
> 
> If I would have a choice, I would rather have an RFC 4960bis with an appendix
> providing any explanations for changes that are not trivial (there are also
> quite a few editorial changes).
> 
> I have marked this with 'has issues' but I am not really having an issue with
> the document per se but more with the fact that I do not see an RFC 4960bis
> that integrates all the changes. This I consider actually a serious issues - it
> is good to have a standards track specification with all the fixes applied
> (instead of an informational collection of fixes that people interested must
> apply themselves in a meaningful way).
> 
> Editorial:
> 
> - s/wrong order of of/wrong order of/





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