RE: removing the milestones
"Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <[email protected]>
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James Carlson <> wrote: > I've had a request to remove our stale milestones from the list. I > agree, and I'm sending mail to the AD and secretariat now. > > Essentially, we have a null list of goals and milestones at this > point and are effectively dormant. > > Below are my notes on the existing list of milestones. If you have > any interest in restoring these with new target dates, or would like > to have new milestones added, please speak up. > >> Dec 99 Advance AODI draft to Proposed Standard > > There's been no activity on this draft in quite some time, and I > don't expect it to end up advancing. > >> Dec 99 Advance CHAP (RFC 1994) to Standard >> Dec 99 Advance Multilink (RFC 1990) to Standard >> Dec 99 Advance LQM (RFC 1989) to Standard >> Dec 99 Advance IPCP (RFC 1332) to Draft Standard >> Dec 99 Advance CCP (RFC 1962) to Draft Standard >> Dec 99 Advance ECP (RFC 1968) to Draft Standard >> Dec 99 Advance PPP over ISDN (RFC 1618) to Draft Standard >> Mar 00 Advance LCP MIB (RFC 1471) to Draft Standard >> Mar 00 Advance CHAP MIB (RFC 1472) to Draft Standard >> Mar 00 Advance IPCP MIB (RFC 1473) to Draft Standard > > These could be advanced, but it would take some minor work to do the > documentation necessary, and it's not clear that there's substantial > value in it. I find this an extremely interesting statement, esp. coming from a WG chair. You seem to be saying that there is doubtful value in advancing a document beyond Proposed Standard, essentially dismissing the most of the IETF standards process as irrelevant. This is particularly interesting (and somewhat distressing) since Draft Standard is, I believe, the only level that requires evidence of interoperability... > >> Dec 99 Add VLAN support to BCP (RFC 1638) and recycle at Proposed >> Standard > > This milestone has been achieved: RFC 2878 obsoleted 1638. Hope this helps, ~gwz Why is it that most of the world's problems can't be solved by simply listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel _______________________________________________ Pppext mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pppext