GOALS
An independent submission review is meant to achieve two overarching goals:
Is the document appropriate for publication as an independent submission?
What improvements to the work should be made prior to publication?
Reviews may be posted publicly on the RFC Editor web site, with author approval. In this posting, your anonymity will be respected if you requested it.
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CONTENTS OF REVIEWS
Questions that the ISE would like you to answer:
A. Is the subject of this document relevant to the RFC Series?
Although the series was originally broadly scoped to include any aspect of computer networking, its scope has become centered on the Internet. This includes changes to the TCP, UDP, and IP protocols, services atop those protocols, formats that are transported by those protocols, as well as related hardware issues (e.g., how to run IP over X hardware). More speculative are documents specific to particular link layer or physical layer technologies. Your opinion here will be useful, although the Independent Submissions Editor, in consultation with the ISEB, will make the final decision.
B. Is this document technically competent, as far as you can tell?
Does the work build upon industry state-of-the-art? Are protocols and interfaces well specified?
C. Is this document in reasonable (not necessarily final) editorial shape?
Works should concisely and clearly make their point. Was it easy to discern the point, and could you understand the approach being offered?
D. Are the Abstract and Introduction of this document reasonably clear?
Does the introduction provide enough background for those Internet techies who may not be experts in the particular subject matter? Do the Title and Abstract fairly and accurately summarize the contents?
E. Does the document make clear upfront how the specification does/does not relate to past or current IETF activities?
F. How else can the document be improved?