Re: AUTH48 is stuck

I've woken up now, and will try to deal with this.

Charles, I have your diffs from September 21. I will try to inspect 
them, and if I approve them, I think we can get this unstuck.

                       Harald


Charles Lindsey wrote:
> RFC 5536 (aka our USEFOR) draft is stuck in AUTH 48.
>
> The problem is that it is agreed it needs to refer to RFC 5532 rather than
> RFC 2822, but RFC has changed the syntax of Message-ID (considerably
> simplified it) and this has consequential effects on the corresponding
> syntax in RFC 5536.
>
> I published the changes I considered desirable (a considerable
> simplification in fact) in this WG months and months ago, and I thought we
> had rough consensus that they should go ahead - certainly several people
> seemed happy with the idea, and none opposed it.
>
> But I am only the second editor. Ken Murchison is the primary editor and
> holds the responsibility for communicating the changes to the RFC Editor,
> unless either he or Harald decides or requests otherwise. But there has
> been total silence from Ken, apart from two messages to say he would do it
> "RSN".
>
> Every month, the RFC Editor circulates to the editors and others concerned
> an enquiry as to whether the changes are yet available, and each month I
> reply saying we are still waiting for Ken.
>
> In desperation a few weeks ago, I prepared the diffs I considered
> necessary in the required format, and sent them to Ken (CC to Harald)
> with a request that he either adopted them, or did his own, or authorized
> me to submit them myself. But there has been no reply.
>
> How can we proceed if neither Ken nor Harald are replying to emails? And
> how else can we proceed?
>
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