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Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Tue Aug 23 10:36:17 2005 
On 23-aug-2005, at 16:16, Yakov Rekhter wrote:


The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report.



If this is true, it's very distressing.





The IDR draft awaits an implementation report in order to advance
the draft to Proposed Standard. What is so distressing about this ?




A draft is work in progress. We don't even get to refer to it because
it's deleted after 6 months. As such, it's hardly less ephemeral than
a conversation.



You can't build implementations based on that. But I guess this is
what happens with the convoluted "standards track" mechanism that the
IETF currently uses.



One thing that bothers me very much about this is that it will make
changes that happen in IETF last call much harder. Essentially that
means that anyone who isn't in IDR doesn't get to have his or her
input considered.