Re: Call for consensus draft-loughney-nsis-ext-02.txt as WG document?
Xiaoming Fu <[email protected]>
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I agree it is really good to have this document to become WG doc. Xiaoming Martin Stiemerling wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nsis >>> >>> >>> >> > > [email protected] <mailto:[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