INTERNET-DRAFT M. Yevstifeyev
Intended Status: Informational May 1, 2011
Updates: 4693 (if approved)
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Report on the Experiment with IETF Operational Notes (IONs)
draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-03
Abstract
This document is a report from the process experiment with IETF
Operational Notes (IONs), conducted by RFC 4693 in accordance with
RFC 3933. It also updates RFC 4693 and changes its status to
Historic.
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1. Introduction
This document is a report from the experiment with IETF Operational
Notes (IONs), conducted by RFC 4693 [RFC4693] in accordance with RFC
3933 [RFC3933]. It discusses the results of this experiment after
first giving some background information on it in Section 2 and makes
the appropriate conclusion. This document updates RFC 4693 [RFC4693]
and changes its status to Historic [RFC2026].
2. Background
IETF Operational Notes (IONs) are a series of documents established
by RFC 4693 [RFC4693] on an experimental basis [RFC3933] in 2006.
This series is (in accordance with RFC 4693 [RFC4693])
intended for use as a repository for IETF operations documents,
which should be more ephemeral than RFCs, but more referenceable
than Internet-Drafts, and with more clear handling procedures than
a random Web page.
RFC 4693 [RFC4693] contains some regulations regarding this series,
such as ION attributes ("front page matters"), approval procedure,
ION store considerations, etc. It also proposes a set off initial
IONs to be published and sets the sunset period of 1 year. See
Section 5 of RFC 4693 [RFC4693] for more background information on
this topic.
3. Experiment Notes and Results
After establishing the IONs series per RFC 4693 [RFC4693], a number
of IONs proposed by that document, as well as on some other topics,
were published. Particularly, the following IONs were issued:
o ion-ad-sponsoring on "Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of
Documents" by Jari Arkko;
o ion-agenda-and-minutes on "Formatting and Content of IETF Working
Group Agendas and Minutes" by David Meyer and Olaf Kolkman;
o ion-discuss-criteria on "DISCUSS Criteria in IESG Review" by the
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IESG members (at the date of approval);
o ion-procdocs on "The IETF Process: an Informal Guide" by Brian
Carpenter;
o ion-rfc-2026-in-practice on "RFC 2026 in Practice" by Brian
Carpenter;
o ion-execd-tasks on "Tasks previously assigned to the IETF Executive
Director" by Lucy Lynch and Brian Carpenter;
o ion-meeting-network-requirements on "IETF Meeting Network
Requirements" by Karen O'Donoghue, Jim Martin, Chris Elliott and
Joel Jaeggli;
o ion-subpoena on "Subpoenas in the IETF: Procedures" by Brian
Carpenter;
o ion-tsv-alt-cc on "Experimental Specification of New Congestion
Control Algorithms" by Lars Eggert;
o ion-ion-formats on "ION Format specification" by Brian Carpenter
and Cullen Jennings;
o ion-ion-store on "The ION Store" by Cullen Jennings and Brian
Carpenter.
The first 2 IONs were published on 11 January, 2007. They were ion-
ion-formats and ion-ion-store. The latest ION was ion-meeting-
network-requirements, published on 13 December, 2007.
However in 2008 it was identified that IONs experiment was closed.
The IESG has determined that IONs will not be used in the future.
It is clear that the IESG, IAB, and IAOC need the ability to
publish documents that do not expire and are easily updated.
Information published as web pages, including IESG Statements, are
sufficient for this purpose.
was mentioned in IESG note on this topic [IESG-IONS] by Russ Housley.
This note appeared on 28 April, 2008. De facto, IONs experiment had
already been concluded by that time. This document is to have a
permanent record of its closure, required by RFC 3933 [RFC3933].
All IONs were republished whether as IESG statements, Web Pages, or
were discarded. The full list is as follows:
o ion-ad-sponsoring was republished as IESG statement "Guidance on
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Area Director Sponsoring of Documents" [SPONSOR];
o ion-agenda-and-minutes was republished as Web Page "Formatting and
Content of IETF Working Group Agendas and Minutes" [AGENDA];
o ion-discuss criteria was republished as IESG Statement "DISCUSS
Criteria in IESG Review" [DISCUSS];
o ion-procdocs was republished as Web Page "The IETF Process: an
Informal Guide" [PROCDOCS];
o ion-rfc2026-in-practice was republished as the Internet-Draft "RFC
2026 in Practice" [2026PRACTICE] (that, however, at the time of
publication of this document, has not resulted in RFC and is
expired);
o ion-execd-tasks was republished as Web Page "Tasks previously
assigned to the IETF Executive Director" [EXECD];
o ion-meeting-network-requirements was republished as Web Page "IETF
Meeting Network Requirements" [MEETING];
o ion-subpoena was republished as Web Page "Subpoenas in the IETF:
Procedures" [SUBPOENAS];
o ion-tsv-alt-cc was republished as IESG Statement "Experimental
Specification of New Congestion Control Algorithms" [ALT-CC];
o ion-ion-formats was discarded;
o ion-ion-store was discarded.
All IONs were located at
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg/content/ions.html>, that is currently
removed from IETF site. However the Internet Wayback Machine project
[WAYBACK] currently has some snapshots of this page, as well as all
IONs, the most current before the experiment closure dated 16 April
2008. You may freely access them at
<http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080416153527/http://www.ietf.org/
IESG/content/ions.html>.
4. Conclusion
Taking everything into account, it was considered that IONs added
complications to the maintenance of documents but did not give a
corresponding benefit to the IETF. This document formally concludes
the IONs experiment [RFC4693], as required by RFC 3933 [RFC3933].
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5. Security Considerations
IONs did not include protocol specifications and therefore
terminating this series is not believed to have any impact on
security of the Internet.
6. IANA Considerations
None. RFC Editor SHALL delete this section upon publication.
7. Acknowledgments
Brian Carpenter provided useful comments on this document.
Many thanks to Harald Alvestrand for his work on RFC 4693.
I would also like to thank all the authors and editors of IONs for
their input to the experiment, particularly Jari Arkko, Brian
Carpenter, Karen O'Donoghue, Lars Eggert, Chris Elliott, Joel
Jaeggli, Cullen Jennings, Olaf Kolkman, Lucy Lynch, Jim Martin, David
Meyer (in alphabetical order).
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC4693] Alvestrand, H., "IETF Operational Notes", RFC 4693,
October 2006.
8.2. Informative References
[2026PRACTICE]
Carpenter, B., "RFC 2026 in Practice", draft-carpenter-
rfc2026-practice-00, Expired Internet-Draft, July 2008.
[AGENDA] D. Meyer and Kolkman, O., "Formatting and Content of IETF
Working Group Agendas and Minutes", Web Page, January
2007. <http://www.ietf.org/wg/agenda-minutes-
procedures.html>
[ALT-CC] L. Eggert, "Experimental Specification of New Congestion
Control Algorithms", IESG Statement, July 2007.
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/congestion-
control.html>
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[DISCUSS] Peterson, J., "DISCUSS Criteria in IESG Review", IESG
Statement, July 2007.
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-
criteria.html>
[EXECD] IETF Administrative Oversight Committee, "Tasks
previously assigned to the IETF Executive Director", Web
Page, March 2007. <http://iaoc.ietf.org/execd-tasks.html>
[IESG-IONS] Housley, R., "IETF Operational Notes", Web Page, April
2008.
<http://www.ietf.org/old/2009/u/iesgcontent/ions.html>
[MEETING] O'Donoghue, K., Martin, J., Elliott, C., and J. Jaeggli,
"IETF Meeting Network Requirements", Web Page, June 2009.
<http://iaoc.ietf.org/network_requirements.html>
[PROCDOCS] Carpenter, B., Ed., "The IETF Process: an Informal
Guide", Web Page, February 2011.
<http://www.ietf.org/about/process-docs.html>
[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
[RFC3933] Klensin, J. and S. Dawkins, "A Model for IETF Process
Experiments", BCP 93, RFC 3933, November 2004.
[] The IESG, "Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of
Documents", IESG Statement, March 2007.
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ad-sponsoring-
docs.html>
[SUBPOENAS] Alvestrand, H., Carpenter, B. and R. Pelletier,
"Subpoenas in the IETF: Procedures", Web Page, January
2007. <http://iaoc.ietf.org/subpoena.html>
[WAYBACK] Internet Archive, "Internet Archive: Wayback Machine,"
Web Page, May 2011. <http://www.archive.org/web/web.php>
Author's Addresses
Mykyta Yevstifeyev
8 Kuzovkov St., flat 25,
Kotovsk
Ukraine
EMail: evnikita2@gmail.com
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