Re: i59

On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote:

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> Julian Reschke wrote:
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>>> Why on earth does RFC 2817 talk about a specific IETF area ?
>> Dunno.
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> Then let's remove it, I don't want "updates 2026" in 2616bis :-)
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>>> e.g., "IETF review" + "RFC required" *OR* "standards action".
>> Please make a proposal.
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> Those are two proposals, I try to explain the main differences:
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> A "standards action" means that an experimental RFC cannot add
> new status codes to the status code registry.
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> An "IETF review" excludes informational or experimental RFCs in
> the "independent" (RFC-editor) stream, and it also excludes all
> other non-IETF streams.  Both proposals exclude W3C standards.

Some (most?) Informational documents do go for IETF Review.  But I  
agree it would exclude independent and other non-IETF streams.

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> For obscure status codes of an IETF protocol excluding the W3C
> is no issue, but I'd worry if we try that also for say new HTTP
> header fields:  Let's not update RFC 3864 unless we really must.
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> Frank
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