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Re: DNS protocol profile document effort.
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ólafur Guðmundsson /DNSEXT chair wrote:
5. The document will avoid updating any RFC, it may reinterpret
certain sections of old RFC's to follow RFC normative language.
6. Any RFC that is shown by this process to be defective, the working
group should generate an -bis document for it.
7. Any RFC or part of that is identified as obsolete should be
explicitly obsoleted by a new RFC.
The above rules seem slightly inconsistent with those in Section 1 of
the current (-00) doc: the doc sounds like it might make minor changes
itself rather than roll new versions of old RFCs.
If we're going to write this document, let's avoid creating more
little do-nothing documents: have this document make minor changes and
declare other documents obsolete, when that can be done easily.
Accordingly, I oppose the three rules above.
Does the working group think that this effort warrants a meeting in
Philadelphia, that basically will be a walk through on the
document to identify which sections have issues ?
It seems like physical meetings could well be useful, but only if we
have a document that's far more fleshed out than this -00. Let's hold
off on making that decision until we see the -01 (and maybe -02). If
there is no -01, then no meeting.
In general, this does seem like a useful thing for the world to have.
I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to contribute.
-- Sam