Re: Status of and comments on the draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-11.txt document

[email protected] Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:43:06 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.fax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> We requestd it as BCP. I am a little surprised that
> RFC 3302 was approved as Proposed Standard.
> Unfortunately, nobody found it even within 48 hours check
> from RFC-Editor.

> Anyway, my questions are,
> why is the status to changed to proposed from BCP?

Because the IESG felt the status of BCP was inappropriate for this document.
More specifically, this document defines a protocol element and the IESG
rejected the notion that BCP was a way to finesse the fact that this is mostly
specified by an outside standard.


> and
> is your intension that RFC 3302 should move to Draft Standard
> and BCP is not appropriate status?

Yes. See my original note for specifics as to how I think this should
work.

				Ned