Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

[Dave CROCKER <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Joel M. Halpern wrote:
>     The documented rules 
> and practice has long been that with regard to Independent Submissions 
> the IESG notes are a request / recommendation to the RFC Editor (soon to 
> be ISE), not a statement of what will be included in the result.
...
> Based on having seen a number of IESG notes, and reading the resulting 
> text and its inherent tone, I would strongly prefer that IESG notes be 
> an exception.  
...
> Thus, I strongly prefer (a).   I prefer that such notes be rare, and 
> that they remain recommendations to the ISE.


+1.

It might help folks to understand the independent relationship, between the 
IETF/IESG and these other RFC streams, if the title of this draft were changed 
from "Handling of" to "Assisting with".

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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