[Iccrg] Submitting draft-irtf-iccrg-cc-rfcs-01 for IRSG review

[Lars Eggert]

On 2007-5-25, at 0:20, ext Michael Welzl wrote:
> Any other concerns?

Gorry's email made me take a look at -01, which I hadn't read yet.

I was OK with -00, which was basically a straightforward survey that  
categorized and summarized existing RFCs. (I didn't think that a  
congestion control survey was the most important thing for ICCRG to  
be working on, but if people were willing to put in the effort, that  
was fine by me.)

I do think that the new text in -01 is a bit problematic. Looking at  
the diff [1], several new paragraphs were added that go beyond what  
I'd expect in a survey. The new text comments and sometimes even  
speculates on the usefulness, applicability or deployment status of  
the surveyed RFCs and IETF efforts. It does so without citing  
sources, and seems to reflect the personal opinion of the authors.

Even though I personally agree with some of those statements, I'm  
worried that there doesn't seem to have been any public discussion on  
them in the ICCRG or the wider transport community. Or, for that  
matter, a discussion on whether the ICCRG wants to change from  
publishing a survey of congestion control RFCs to publishing a  
commentary on such RFCs, which the changes from -00 to -01 have  
resulted in.

Lars

[1] http://www3.tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=http://tools.ietf.org/id/ 
draft-irtf-iccrg-cc-rfcs-01.txt
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