Re: IESG's Review of EMSD Specification

[Mohsen BANAN <mohsen@neda.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:15:43 +0000, Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> said:

  Brian> Mohsen BANAN wrote:
  Brian> ...
  >> 
  >> After all that we have gone through in the
  >> case of this Informational RFC, at this
  >> point, the IESG has the RESPONSIBILITY of
  >> doing its part towards the completion of
  >> publication of this NON IETF, NON STANDARDS
  >> TRACK, Informational RFC in a timely manner.

  Brian> As you have been told several times, the IETF is under
  Brian> no obligation to publish anything for anybody at any time. 


Brian,

Can you please refer me to the procedures that you think 
we should be following?

EMSD is a NON IETF Informational RFC.

RFC-2026 says something like:

   If  the IESG considers that the document proposes
   something that conflicts with, or is actually inimical to, an
   established IETF effort, the document may still be published as an
   Experimental or Informational RFC.  In these cases, however, the IESG
   may insert appropriate "disclaimer" text into the RFC either in or
   immediately following the "Status of this Memo" section in order to
   make the circumstances of its publication clear to readers.


The spirit of that section is to accommodate parallel
experimentation and to introduce competition amongst
protocols.  Right?

The idea there is that no one group has exclusivity
on good ways and good ideas and that RFC publication
can help parallel experimentation. Right?


...Mohsen.