RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsec-filter-caps (Filtering and Rate Limiting Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure) to BCP

["David Harrington" <ietfdbh@comcast.net>]

Hi,

From a vendor prespective, I think a BCP is more meaningful; it will
carry more weight than just an Informational document, so as a person
who helps develop corporate strategy for what to include in products,
I prefer to see this type of recommendation published as a BCP.

However, I am not an operator, so i cannot tell whether the
recommendations do actually represent "best current practice", and it
is fairly important for my continued credibility as an advisor that
these are actually best current practices, at least for some segments
of the community.

I suggest explicitly asking some people known to be active operators
to review the draft and see if there is consensus that these are
reasonable as recommended "best current practices".

David Harrington
dharrington@huawei.com 
dbharrington@comcast.net
ietfdbh@comcast.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-opsec@psg.com [mailto:owner-opsec@psg.com] On 
> Behalf Of Ross Callon
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: Ronald Bonica; opsec@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsec-filter-caps 
> (Filtering and Rate Limiting Capabilities for IP Network 
> Infrastructure) to BCP
> 
> At this point I think that I have a pretty good idea how 
> Barry and Danny
> feel about the "informational vs BCP" choice.
> 
> Does anyone else have a strong opinion on this issue? 
> 
> Do service providers feel that this would effect how they 
> would use the
> resulting RFC? I am suspecting that vendors will pay attention or
not
> pay attention to the OPSEC capabilities drafts based on to what
extent
> the service providers ask them to. 
> 
> Ross
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-opsec@psg.com [mailto:owner-opsec@psg.com] On Behalf Of
> Ronald Bonica
> Sent: 28 June 2007 11:10
> To: Danny McPherson
> Cc: gmj@pobox.com; George Jones; bgreene Barry Greene; Chris 
> L. Morrow;
> opsec@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsec-filter-caps 
> (Filtering and Rate
> Limiting Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure) to BCP
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Please disregard my previous email, instructing the authors to
publish
> as INFORMATIONAL. I hadn't read Danny's objection yet when I sent
that
> instruction.
> 
> Danny, Barry, please continue this dialog and try to reach some
> consensus. In the mean time, I will retreat into my 
> smoke-filled room to
> figure out if there is any RFC that provides guidance in case 
> you can't
> reach consensus between one another.
> 
>                                Ron
> 
>