Pekka Savola wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
I assume most of you saw this message on ietf-announce.
But since it's especially important to the WG chairs, I'm forwarding it to you directly.
Another comment: IMHO it seems ludicurous that all the I-D's should include an IANA Considerations section, even if the document requests nothing of IANA.
Suggestion to fix this: change the policy so that if the document requires any action from the IANA, IANA Considerations section MUST be present. Otherwise, no action of IANA is assumed. (Previously, IANA Considerations has only been required if IANA has been required to create a new registry, assigning numbers could be done without the IANA Considerations section as well.)
You can argue that once a document has been published a NULL IANA section is a waste of space. I suppose you could also make the same case for the frequently NULL Security section. However to omit such statements up front converts the protocol from positive ack to negative ack with all the undesirable uncertainties.
If we really feel the need to save the bytes then I suggest that it remains in place with a note that it is to be deleted by the (RFC) editor in the last processing pass.
Personally I would leave the NULL IANA statement in place as a check so that everyone knows the exact status at all time.
- Stewart
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: 20. mai 2004 09:34 -0400 From: The IESG <iesg at ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce Subject: New ID-Checklist to replace ID-nits
As you probably all know, we have used the ID-nits for a few years to help you all to prepare your Internet-Drafts such that they will process faster through the AD-review, IETF Last Call and IESG approval process.
The name was somewhat wrong in that it is more a serious checklist than merely "nits" (however, there are some nits too). The IESG, RFC-Editor and IANA have evaluated the checklist, and a new (improved) ID-Checklist is now available at
http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html
Please help us all by actually CHECKING your Internet-Draft BEFORE you pass it on to your AD and the IESG via a "request to publish". It will help to make the process go faster and reduce the workload on all of us if your document has been checked and complies with the guidance/rules in the ID-Checklist.
Thanks, the IESG
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