Re: [EAI] Fw: apply to be an item of EAI WG

["YAO Jiankang" <yaojk at cnnic.cn>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Leiba" <barryleiba.mailing.lists at gmail.com>
To: "YAO Jiankang" <yaojk at cnnic.cn>
Cc: "EAI WG" <ima at ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [EAI] Fw: apply to be an item of EAI WG


The downgrade issues are very important to us, which may impact our direction of re-charter.
.> >  This draft provides some analysis about downgrade testing, which will help us deploy the EAI
> > system and the re-charter work of the working group in the near future.
> > John may step in as the co-author of this draft and do some updatings to this draft if he can
> > find some time to do it.
> > I hope this draft to be an WG item and refine it.
>>
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-yao-eai-downgrade-tests-analysis-00.txt

> I see this as a fine document, useful as a working draft as we proceed
> with the rechartering and moving the protocols from experimental to
> standards track.  

+1, thanks.

>But I don't see it as ever being published as an
> RFC, even as Informational.  It doesn't seem to me that these
> experiments and their results need to be preserved forever, but only
> used (and revised and refined) as we're doing our work.

the usefulness is that we can track why we move the standard track to this direction or that direction.
after many years, some users may ask such questions.
So I think that the information rfc is a good category for keeping this information.

> As such, I don't see the need to adopt it as a working-group document,
> though I certainly have no objection to doing that if consensus is for
> it.  I think it can remain an individual submission, and then be left
> to expire when it's no longer needed.

> Barry