Re: Last Call on USEFOR - procedures and reminder of deadline

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <48C26F59.5000808@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>As you probably have seen, Lisa was true to her promise and Last-Called 
>usefor-12 on August 30, with a Last Call expiry date of September 12 (6 
>days from now).

That seems a very short interval. I have been on hboliday for 10 days, and
the Last Call seems to have openened and closed within that time.

>I would particularly like to ask Charles to go over his August 28 long 
>commentary on -11 and check what issues remain in -12, and if any of 
>them need to be raised above the editorial level.

None of the issues I raised was fixed in -12 (bar one). I think it best if
Russ looks carefully through it and indicates which is is happy to accept
(possibly reworded) as editorial corrections.

The only items which probably need discussion here are:

1. The MUST NOT in 
  "the    Path header field MUST NOT contain a "POSTED" <diag-keyword>;"
in Proto-articles (3.4.1) (since no interoperability arises, and there
might be diagnostic benefit in allowing it to remain in there).

2. The wording in 5.4 (Supersedes header) which is clearly wrong as it
stands, but I am not sure of the best way to fix it.

Also, it needs to be realised that the resolution of the IR/IC issue was
made by arbitrary decision of the Chair. I agree there was no better way
to resolve it (though naturally I disagree with the side of the fence that
the Chair fell onto :-) ). Ordinarily, one might ask the IETF to resolve
such dilemmas, but this case depends on a detailed understanding of the
foibles of newsgroup propagation).

>I'm hoping that we'll close this WG soon.

I think we need to review the list of things we once had on our list of
future work, and to decide which of them to do (which might be zero, of
course). But some of them are mentioned in our draft as future
possibilities, and such references might need to be edited out at some
later stage.

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