Re: agent draft updated

Damien Miller <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:42:59 +1000 (AEST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> I would suggest that before standardizing the agent protocol, we should
> first document the existing one. IMHO this is best done as an informational
> RFC submitted via the independent submission stream
> (see https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/independent/).
> Once that is done, if there is any new work to do, and you are willing to
> cede change control to the IETF, then it would seem appropriate to do a
> follow-on document, perhaps on the standards track. I don't think the SSH
> community has the energy to form a new working group, but we've had good
> luck on this mailing list with using the process for non-wg documents. 

Thanks, though maybe I'm misinterpreting the guidelines for independent
submission, but the text mentions that this process is not suitable for
drafts that require IANA changes.

This draft definitely does. Is that a problem?

-d