RE: WG dcoument status

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:

> To be precise, the WG chairs will ask AD to consider the docs for PS
> (Proposed Standard). AD then reviews and if happy asks iesg-secretary
> to issue a 2 week IETF Last Call. After that IETF wide Last Call 
> finishes, then, depending on comments if any, AD can put the documents
> on the IESG agenda for final discussion/approval. 

Thanks for the clarification and summary of the process.

> This report is to be prepared by the WG (chairs). And it needs to be sent
> to iesg-secretary who will put it online on the IETF webpages, so that
> during IETF Last Call people can actually look at the reports.

Okay.  I'll get to work on it.

> Please also not that some people worred (back at SLC meeting) that this
> might delay the docs too much. I would like to remind you that it is now
> 2.5 months later, and I have still not seen any signs of such a report.

Mea culpa.  However, I am waiting for implementations based on the
latest versions.

> So... this means that WG Last Call is NOT finished on that one document.
> And I assume you want to process the whole set of 4 documents from above
> as one set. Is that a correct assumption?

Yes, that is preferred.

> There is also the one informational document that got split off in from
> this set. Is that ready and does it have WG consensus to be published
> as Informational RFC?

That is correct.  I'll send out a call for consensus on that.

> Will you pass that along with the set above too?

I'll ask the authors/editor.  It would be ready for publication
much sooner, but may not make sense to publish it independently.
However, it would be good to get the WG sense on this now.

Kireeti.