RE: Request to advance rfc4214(bis) to standards-track through ADsponsorship

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > > If Mark is also busy we could ask the other ADs, but I
> > > suppose another option would be to just put it as an
> > > independent submission to the RFC editor?
> > That's always an option.
>
> Process question - is it possible to publish as standards-track
> through independent submission to the RFC editor, or is that
> method only good for Informational/Experimental? (Please cite
> references if possible.)

No.  RFC editor cannot publish standards track RFCs, those must come 
from the IETF (either from a WG or through an AD).

From http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html :

"Independent submissions are submitted directly to the RFC Editor as 
Internet Drafts. Once such a Draft has been published, the author 
should then email its file name to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, 
requesting that the independent submission be considered for 
publication as an RFC in the Informational or Experimental category 
(please specify)."

FWIW I personally haven't seen sufficient justification (e.g., the 
amount and the kind of deployments; the number of implementations that 
currently ship ISATAP as specified by the RFC; the amount of required 
revisions to the specification) to move ISATAP to the standards track.

Even if there was a high-level decision to do so, the process should 
take a number of months at the very least to ensure proper review has 
been done.

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