From IAB: Protocol models document

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Eric Rescorla has a rought draft for an I-D that he
would appreciate feedback on. I took a quick look at
it, and it seems to me if people follow this advice,
then reviewing documents would become much easier for
people like ourselves but also for others.

The ptr is:      http://www.rtfm.com/model.txt

Feedback to Eric or to the iab mailing list please.

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:ekr@rtfm.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 8 juli 2003 22:32
> To: iab@ietf.org
> Subject: Protocol models document
> 
> 
> I know that I've talked to a few of you about what I call "protocol
> models" or more informally "boxes and arrows". The basic idea 
> is that it would be very nice if protocol authors wrote up high-level 
> summaries of how the protocol worked so that reviewers could grasp
> the important elements before they read the entire document. I've 
> written up a document that describes what I consider a useful method
> for presenting this kind of model, which can be found at:
> 
>      http://www.rtfm.com/model.txt
> 
> 
> I'd like to get IAB comments before submitting it as an I-D.  It's not
> clear that this is appropriate as an IAB document--quite probably
> not--though I have no objection to making it one. However, I think the
> IAB would be a good group to get opinions from.
> 
> In particular, one of my examples is DCCP, so I'd like to get comments
> from Mark and Sally as to whether i've totally bungled things.
> 
> -Ekr
>