The IESg has picked an inconvenient time to start enforcing rules of RFC 3967. RFC 3967 requires that normative references to informational documents be called out in last call messages unless the area directors have called out that particular document so many times that they believe that it no longer requires special notice. The goal is to require that normative text is reviewed sufficiently for quality and to make sure that it is clear enough to implement. I didn't notice the reference to cast-128 (or at least forgot this particular rule when I noticed the reference) so the last call was insufficient. I'm reissuing the last call. I am keeping the document on the IESG agenda for September 1. The plan is that if no discuss comments are received it will be approved one week late and if discuss comments are received, we probably will not have any delay over what is required for the discuss comments. I will hold the rc4 draft along with this one. I don't believe I need a new last call for the rc4 draft because rc4 has been used sufficiently many times.
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- Subject: Revised Last Call: 'SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes' to Proposed
- From: The IESG <iesg-secretary%ietf.org@localhost>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:06:29 -0400
Standard Reply-to: iesg%ietf.org@localhost CC: <ietf-ssh%netbsd.org@localhost> The IESG has received a request from the Secure Shell WG to consider the following document: - 'SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes ' <draft-ietf-secsh-newmodes-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard This last call is being reissued because this document contains a normative reference to an informational RFC: RFC 2144 The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm. C. Adams. May 1997. It is customary to include normative references to informational documents describing cryptographic algorithms. However the procedures of RFC 3967 require that this normative reference be called out in the IETF last call. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the iesg%ietf.org@localhost or ietf%ietf.org@localhost mailing lists by 2005-09-08. The file can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-secsh-newmodes-04.txt _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce%ietf.org@localhost https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
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