Good news from the IESG

The IESG has approved three of the four remaining RDDP drafts
for RFC publication:
- The RDMAP and DDP drafts have been approved, announcements
	should appear in the near future.  Congratulations and
	thanks to all the authors and contributors!!
- The RDDP SCTP draft has been approved on a technical basis,
	after an RFC Editor note was added to say that use of
	IPsec with RDDP over SCTP requires IPsec support for SCTP
	(yes, it's obvious, but it does have to be stated ...).
	However, the SCTP draft is in a weird situation in that
	it allocates a codepoint from an IANA registry that does
	not exist yet, as the SCTP ADDIP draft that will create
	the registry has not yet made it to the IESG.  Hence,
	IANA has asked the IESG to hold the RDDP SCTP draft until
	IESG approval of the SCTP ADDIP draft.
- The MPA draft was deferred for two weeks.  This usually means
	that an AD simply ran out of time to review it.  There
	will be an RFC Editor Note coming to clarify and better
	explain when it's ok not to use the MPA CRC, including
	providing end-to-end IPsec as an example (should appear
	in the tracker this week, assuming my time permits).

We're getting close to done.  Many thanks to all who have
contributed,

--David (rddp WG chair)
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