Re: [dnsext] Working group workflow

["Roy Arends" <roy@nominet.org.uk>]

Andrew Sullivan wrote on 12/09/2008 07:09:48 PM:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I'm writing to express some concern over the working group work flow.
> What concerns me is that some current events may be part of a larger
> pattern of how work gets done in this group.
> 
> We are currently embroiled in an argument about different algorithm
> identifiers for NSEC and NSEC3 records.  This new round of objections
> started with one participant immediately before the document was sent
> for publication, and it did not address the fundamental arguments that
> had been made during WGLC.
> 
> Moreover, the new round of objections is really late.  I sent a
> message
> (http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2008/msg02113.html)
> to the WG on 22 October, noting that we were planning this change.  I
> also noted at the time that after the new draft was published, I'd
> wait a week before sending the document to the IESG.  On 24 October, I
> drew to everyone's attention that the new draft had been posted
> (http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2008/msg02133.html
).
> Nobody said anything.  I actually waited more than a week.  Nobody
> said anything to me in Minneapolis, either. 
> 
> But now, well after the WG is supposed to be done with the document,
> we have a new round of objections that re-open a previously closed
> discussion. 

Not so fast:

I asked for implied support of NSEC3 in october 2007, and the document 
subsequently reflected this:

http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2007/msg00599.html

"What I do like to mandate is support for the new keytypes implies support 
for NSEC3, provided that NSEC3 is proposed standard by that time. That 
would avoid allocating an alias for every keytype."

( Note that the document had expired from July 5th 2006 until December 10 
2007 )

There has been no objection since then, and the document reflected this, 
until recently. I _have_ reviewed the document in october 2007. I call 
that early, not late.

Regards,

Roy Arends
Sr. Researcher
Nominet UK

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