Protocol models document

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

Eric, the IESG discussed your document today, and several 
IESG members have read it and feel that it would be a 
very useful doc to publish.

Hope this helps,
Bert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:bwijnen@lucent.com]
> Sent: woensdag 9 juli 2003 16:19
> To: Iesg (E-mail)
> Subject: From IAB: Protocol models document
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
>