Hi John,
Le 14/05/2018 à 12:47, John C Klensin a écrit :
--On Monday, May 14, 2018 11:19 +0200 Alexandre Petrescu
<alexandre.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John,
Thank you for the reply.
I understand the need of universal reachability, separation of
experiments, and avoid of appeals.
Allow me to wonder though whether the non-IETF XML format went
through such experimenting before being enforced at IETF scale.
While I'm not sure what the two have to do with each other or
exactly what you are referring to, if you are referring to what
is known as the xml2rfc format,
(1) It is not "being enforced" (in either version). You are
free to prepare and submit I-Ds, or even final pre-publication
RFC drafts in plain ASCII text format without getting anywhere
near XML.
(2) And, yes, there has been extensive experimentation and
discussion. Some of us are fairly unhappy with the new version
and its documentation, but that doesn't change the history of
discussion, documentation, and, apparently, rough consensus.
At this time, the submission system will not accept only the xml, it
wants the txt too. Otherwise it complains about draft name and/or title.
(yes, I was wrong about many other things I said earlier; yes, the
submission system works ok if accessed with a client that does only IPv6
and that is connected on a network that does only IPv6; I just checked
from a car network by submitting an Internet Draft).
Alex
john
Alex
Le 04/05/2018 à 13:48, John C Klensin a écrit :
Personal opinion only...
A key part of the intent of Internet Drafts is that they be
generally available to anyone interested on the Internet. I
understand the motivations for experiments and demonstrations
but, if something is posted that is deliberately inaccessible
to someone who cannot not or will not use IPv6, it
invalidates the function of the document as a
generally-accessible I-D and presumably could result in a
process problem (or appeal) if there were any attempt to move
it into an IETF consensus process.
Please do demonstrations and experiments in another way.
