Re: draft-higgs (Re: [ga-roots] Capture and Diversion)

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Thank you Mr. Chair,
It is helpful to know the official status of the draft referred to in this
post.  I have now read the draft because no one seems to be able to place
simple definitions and concepts to the matters which are historical, dynamic
and prophetic.

Would you be so kind as to give comment on the substance of the draft.  It
appears to at least seem helpful for discussion of a base upon which discussion
can be better moderated.

Sincerely,

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 11:05 02.05.2001 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
> >Then can we all assume ICANN will fully comply with this IETF document
> >once it becomes an RFC:
> >
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-root-defs-00.txt
> >
> >The DNSO should be fully supporting this effort to prevent collisions
> >between roots.
>
> on this point, I can claim to speak with a tiny bit of authority.
>
> just to make the formalities clear:
>
> 1) The author of draft-higgs chose not to grant to the IETF the rights to
>     publish his draft as an RFC, even if it wanted to. See the copyright
>     notice in the preface ("is NOT offered in conformance with...")
>
> 2) The author of draft-higgs has not asked the RFC Editor or the IESG to
>     consider publishing his document as any type of RFC (informational or
>     BCP; standards-track would be inappropriate for this text)
>
> 3) There has been no indication that a request for such publication would
>     be met with a positive response. Especially, there has been no
>     demonstration of the IETF consensus required for BCP publication; info
>     RFCs are not the IETF's opinion about anything.
>
> Publishing an internet-draft is easy, and can be done by anyone; checking
> is minimal - basically, they check that it looks like ASCII, that the
> author can be identified, and the boilerplate is in place. No checking on
> content.
>
> In short - this is a document written by someone using the name "S. Higgs".
> Nothing more than that.
>
>           Harald Alvestrand, IETF chair
>
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