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

["Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Ross Callon wrote:

> 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?

(catching up while not doing work...) So, I think I'm sort of ambivalent
about the naming/categorization of this document. I think that's directly
related to me not knowing exactly how/where/why documents are categorized
as 'rfc' or 'bcp', so I might not be the best judge of direction for this
question :(

I think that the goal of the document was to:
1) gather up things operations folks expect networking equipment to be
able to do going forward
2) provide a document operators can cite in RFP processes with
vendors/selves
3) provide a document operators can cite in policy documents internal to
their organizations

I just don't know with any real confidence which direction that would push
this document, and I'd ask some more-IETF-knowledgable folks to aim it for
me/us/the-WG.

>
> 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
>