SILC Protocol and IETF

Hello,

As promised several months ago I try to let people know about the process 
of RFC publishing the SILC protocol specifications in the IETF.  Here are 
the latest news on that.

I have received news from the IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group) 
after they had completed their few weeks of review of the SILC protocol 
specifications as to be published in the Standards Track.  They decided 
that the SILC protocol would conflict with the current three IETF Working 
Group efforts, simple, impp and xmpp and that there are no plans to submit 
it as a Working Group effort or as a new Working Group candidate.  For 
this reason, they feel that there is not enough support within IETF 
Community to publish the SILC specifications in the Standards Track.

This was pretty much what I expected because SILC was not developed in a 
Working Group and IETF already has similar efforts going on.  It is 
unlikely that this would change any near future unless something 
significant happens within the IETF that changes their mind.  What this 
does not, however, mean is that SILC specifications wouldn't be published 
as RFCs.  They are going to be published as RFCs.  Most RFCs published by 
IETF are released in the Non-Standards Track, for example, IRC protocol 
and numerous other, even though IRC can be considered to be de-facto 
standard in the Internet.  It is also important to publish SILC as RFCs 
now so that any possible future development of new version of SILC 
protocol could begin, should SILC community decide that's necessary.

SILC specifications has now been submitted to the RFC Editor for 
publishing.  This process will take several months to complete.  I will 
let you know what is going on with that when I have more information. 
All these processes are public and you can also view them at the 
www.ietf.org.

 	Pekka
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  Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
  Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)       http://silcnet.org/

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