Re: WG: New Draft: Trunk Group Use in ENUM RESTART
"Richard Shockey" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:29:19 -0400
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I'd like to take up where we left off on this subject and determine what the WG consensus is on dealing with this issue. There is consensus that this is a item we had on the WG plate that has real applicability to applications in use and clarification on how these parameters should be represented in ENUM queries is a "good thing". The first question is then do we essentially adopt this new draft as a WG item and quickly move it forward? The second is as what Informational or BCP? > I have no expertise on the subject matter, but would like to share > some observations on process: > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:22:03PM +0000, Lawrence Conroy wrote: > > > beware - *who* gets to decide if a WG draft is dead? > > usually that's a WG consensus, either explicitly or by lack of motion > as to > be determined by the chairs. In this case however, it seems that the > WG > (or those in the WG who actively follow the matter) have changed their > mind > about the direction of the draft. Posting a new I-D was one way, but > if the > WG consensus is that the solution proposed in > "IANA Registration for an Enumservice Trunkgroup" is no longer the > right one > and instead a parameter to the SIP URI, as proposed in Trunk Group Use > in ENUM > will do better, then WG consensus could just direct the editors to re- > write > accordingly. Now, it seems that the editors change on the fly, too, > but that's > up to the chairs (well, and any new editors) anyway. > > > Also, why is putting this new stuff in the clutches of a sleeping > > WG (or an inchoate one) going to make it any faster getting any BCP > > through the IETF/IESG process? Does anyone remember IPTEL? > > I am a bit nervous about "fast tracking" in the last minute and the > status of BCP. The former seldomly works out, but the current work item > needs to get off the WG's plate anyway. The latter doesn't seem necessary, > especially since we're about to re-classify all (or many of) those > Proposed Standards anyway. A purely Informational document would do, and is > definitely more lightweight. The draft would be an Informational > addendum to RFC 3764, which it needs to reference normatively. > > The draft itself, however, isn't really clear about the intended > status > "IANA Registration for an Enumservice Trunkgroup". This document is a > normative > reference although it seems to have outlived its usefulness and > actually the > registration in there is kind of revoked. > However, the "trunk" ENUM service doesn't yet appear in > <http://www.iana.org/assignments/enum-services> if my pattern matching > skills > suffice. So, instead of pursuing the old draft and immediately > revoking the > registration (or declaring it a no go), the new (well, "revised") > draft > should just state the new intended method of using trunk groups in > ENUM > and incorporate verbatim the relevant parts of the earlier draft > (without > suggesting there actually _is_ a valid ENUM servcie registration) in > an > appendix. > It wouldn't be the first time an IETF WG started an effort to do FOO > and the > document ends with the title "Why not to FOO". > > I'm not sure I follow the rationale in the first paragraph of section > 1.2, > it feels like it's superseded by the newly born 5483 -- > congratulations, by > the way. > > -Peter > _______________________________________________ > enum mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/enum