Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

Ralph,

I'm not sure I understand your question. This is the IETF so
we take decisions by on line deliberation inside the IESG
just as much as any WG does, and the minutes or IESG announcements
are the public record. And this decision, and the formulation
of the response to IANA and the announcement, took a number
of weeks. We agreed apart from final wordsmithing in the May 26
meeting (agenda item 6.2).

    Brian

Ralph Droms wrote:
> Brian...
>
> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 17:50 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Ralph,
> >
> > Ralph Droms wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to understand the process through which Dr. Roberts' request
> > > was reviewed.  The first reference I can find to Dr. Roberts' request is
> > > in the 2005-04-14 minutes of the IESG
> > > (https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/view_telechat_minute.cgi?
> > > command=view_minute&id=318  see below).  According to the rejection
> > > announcement, the IESG reviewed the submission and determined that
> > > "Reviewing this proposal within the IETF as an alternative to the
> > > ongoing work would be a multi-year endeavor. The IESG is pessimistic
> > > that this effort would ever achieve consensus."  The minutes refer to
> > > discussion of a "management issue".  Was the entire review conducted in
> > > the meeting on 2005-04-14, or was there additional review conducted
> > > prior to that meeting? How, exactly, did the IESG review the submission
> > > and how did the IESG come to its conclusion?
> > >
> > >
> > > - Ralph
> >
> > This took many weeks, considerable email, and several informal
> > discussions before the IESG was sure of its position and able to
> > record a conclusion in the meeting you cite. Since there was no
> > IETF contribution (I-D or email on a public list) this process
> > was indeed invisible. I would have preferred a discussion based
> > around an IETF draft, but we didn't have one.
>
>
> >    Brian
>
>
> I don't understand the cause-and-effect: why would the lack of an IETF
> contribution lead to an invisible process?
>
> Dr. Roberts' original request was apparently received by IANA on
> 2005-03-25 and forwarded by IANA to the IESG on 2005-04-07.  Did the
> IESG reach its conclusions about the request during its 2005-04-14
> teleconference or at a later time?  It may be that the IESG minutes
> aren't clear... 
>
> - Ralph


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