Date: tirsdag, november 05, 2002 10:51:13 +0700 From: Robert Elz To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand Subject: Formal Appeal against IESG decision This is to request that the IESG review, and reverse its decision to approve for publication as a draft standard the document draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-11.txt As previously mentioned in messages to the IESG, this doc contains features for which the required interoperability reports (as required in RFC2026) have not been produced, nor can they genuinely be, as from all accounts, there are not the required two implementations of the features in question. The features of the address architecture that have no implementations (or no documented two implementations in any case) are... The requirement that all IIDs be 64 bits in global unicast addresses, other than ones with the first three bits 000. The requirement that where the 'u' bit (the inverted L bit from the MAC address) is set, the IID is globally unique. Each of those could be implemented - implementations could refuse to allow IIDs to be configured with a length other than 64 (that is, refuse to allow addresses to be configured on interfaces with a prefix length other than 64), and could refuse to allow the 'u' bit to be set unless the IID had been demonstrated to be globally unique. They don't however. 2026 requires that every feature in a document to be advanced to draft standard status must have been implemented by at least two independent implementations (interoperably), and have been documented as such in the implementation report. That has not been done here. Please withdraw this document from publication, or revert its status to Proposed Standard. kre ps: for the RFC editor - delaying publication of this doc until the IAB appeal that is likely to follow this message has been concluded would be a very good idea I believe.