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Subject:    Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?
From:       Lucy Lynch <llynch () civil-tongue ! net>
Date:       2011-02-28 19:32:40
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.1102281126060.63461 () hiroshima ! bogus ! com
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Richard L. Barnes wrote:

> As far as I know, what you're looking for doesn't exist, although it would probably \
> be good if it did! 
> One thing that does crop up here and there are "hitchhiker's guide" RFCs, such as \
> this one: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5411>
> 
> Beyond that, the best way I know of to look for IETF recommendations on a subject \
> is using the search feature on the tools pages: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/>
> 

Although they can quite intimidating, I'm fond the the dependency
graphs the accompany the WG pages on tools.ietf.org The link is
at the very bottom of the page - http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/

Take a look at:
http://www.fenron.net/~fenner/ietf/deps/viz/v6ops.pdf

kind of makes your head hurt.

- Lucy

> 
> 
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> > Bob,
> > 
> > Are recommendations actually published as BCP?
> > 
> > I only see one BCP with "IPv6" in the title, published back in 2004.
> > Compared to this, the ipv6ops working group alone has produced dozens of
> > informational RFCs:
> > 
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/
> > 
> > At least one of these are even explicitly recommendations:
> > 
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4890/
> > 
> > Some are targeted at protocol developers, some at vendors, some at
> > operators. It's quite a mixed bag. :)
> > 
> > I'm not complaining, I just want to know if I am missing an obvious
> > place.
> > 
> > --
> > Shane
> > 
> > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:10 +0200, Bob Hinden wrote:
> > > Shane,
> > > 
> > > Like this one, aren't recommendations usually published as BCPs?
> > > 
> > > Bob
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Shane Kerr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All,
> > > > 
> > > > I just happened to notice this document on ietf-announce today:
> > > > 
> > > > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-server-logging-recommendations/
> > > >  
> > > > It seems quite reasonable.
> > > > 
> > > > My question is... how is this advice expected to trickle out into actual
> > > > use? There are more than 6000 RFCs, and they don't seem to be organized
> > > > in a useful way that I can find.
> > > > 
> > > > I ask because I was going to forward this to an IPv6 operations list,
> > > > and thought "hm... what about the rest?" and I realized I did not know,
> > > > and did not even know how to find out.
> > > > 
> > > > Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Shane
> > > > 
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