Precondition for WG Last Call of the First Document Grouping

During the LDUP WG Meeting earlier this week, there was a process point
raised by Ted Hardie. We will be asking this question for each of the WG
Last Call document groupings as we approach the time to initiate them.

We need to consider if we should or don't need to request that various
drafts intended for publication as Informational and Experimental RFCs
go through an IETF Last Call. Such documents are not required to pass an
IETF Last Call prior to IESG approval for publication as RFCs.

At this time, your Co-Chairs need a response on that issue from WG
Members relative to the following two documents:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldup-model-09.txt

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldup-infomod-08.txt

They are both intended for publication as Informational RFCs. 

Please indicate whether you think an IETF Last Call should or should not
be requested for each of the documents listed above.

In the interest of keeping things moving along as quickly as possible,
please respond with your input on this matter no later than 1700 US ET
on Friday, November 21, 2003.

We will not initiate the WG Last Call for the First Grouping of
documents until this window of time has elapsed so that WG Last Call
participants will know that there will or will not be a
post-WG-Last-Call chance to comment on the document prior to the WG Last
Call commencing.

See the CSN-Note at the end of this e-mail for an explanation of how
this question relates to the recent suggestion to pull the CSN content
out of draft-ietf-ldup-infomod-08.txt as a separate standards-track
document.

If we receive no input or insufficient input on which to base an
interpretation of consensus, upon conclusion of the WG Last Call for
these two documents, our decision as Co-Chairs will be to recommend
publication of the drafts as Informational RFCs *without* requesting an
IETF Last Call. Otherwise, we'll request an action consistent with
consensus on this topic.

Chris Apple
DSI Consulting, Inc.

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609-828-2987

CSN-Note:

There is some possibility that we will be pulling out the CSN content
from draft-ietf-ldup-infomod-08.txt as a standards-track document to be
included in the same WG Last Call. Since the CSN draft would be intended
as a standards-track document, an IETF Last Call would be required, but
only for the CSN draft. The CSN draft status will not change the
intended publication track for draft-ietf-ldup-infomod-08.txt (actually
would be -09.txt if the CSN draft happens), and thus has no material
impact the question being asked in this e-mail.