Re: Call for consensus draft-loughney-nsis-ext-02.txt as WG document?
Martin Stiemerling <[email protected]>
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Hi Hannes, Am 01.10.2007 um 11:52 schrieb Hannes Tschofenig: > Hi Martin > > I agree that such a document is useful. > > There are, however, a few follow-up questions: > a) When do you write such a document? > b) What is the scope of the document? > > Regarding (a): In the RADEXT and the DIME working group we are > currently producing documents that provide sort of design > guidelines, see > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dime-app-design- > guide-02.txt > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-radext-design-00.txt > > These two documents are written based on the experience that > something went wrong regarding the way how people extended the > protocol. Maybe it would have been better to write these documents > earlier. Now we obviously have much more bad examples to write about. We are in the lucky situation to write such a document before things can go wrong. That is a good reasons to start now. > > Regarding (b): Should the document focus only on GIST or should it > also cover the NSLPs? What happens if you define a new NSLP - do > you revise the document? It should cover the whole NSIS stack, i.e., GIST and the NSLPs. When you are tying to extend NSIS as such, you first need to find out the right place to do the extension. > > How far can this document go beyond the already described > information found in GIST, and the NSLPs? I could, for example, > imagine that someone gives details about the common design aspects > where you could essentially "steal" text from existing NSLPs. This is a good point. Martin > > Ciao > Hannes > > > > Martin Stiemerling wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Some time ago, John wrote the draft draft-loughney-nsis-ext-02.txt >> discussing the extensibility of NSIS. >> >> It has been discussed on the mailing list, plus during the IETF >> meetings and it seems to be a good shape to become a WG document. >> >> Therefore, I would like to propose draft-loughney-nsis-ext-02.txt >> becoming a WG draft by now. >> >> This requires consensus of WG to do so. >> >> Please send your opinion on whether you like to see draft-loughney- >> nsis-ext-02.txt as WG document or not to the NSIS mailing list by >> no later than Oct 4th 5pm PST. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Martin >> >> [email protected] >> NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division >> >> NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria >> Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nsis mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nsis >> > [email protected] NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014 _______________________________________________ nsis mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nsis