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PWG> Method to publish Counter MIB and IPP Fax

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 19:13:48 EDT

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    Hi folks,

    Here's a good way to 'archive' in a formal sense (as Jerry Thrasher
    says) the Counter MIB and IPP Fax Protocol specs:

    (1) Send them through PWG Last Call
        - already done for Counter MIB - no outstanding issues
        - IPP Fax still needs review of last Security Considerations edits
          and then PWG Last Call

    (2) Send them through PWG Formal Vote as INFORMATIONAL documents
            - publish them with a new 'info-' document prefix in
          ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/informational/
          as 'info-[working group document]10-yyyymmdd.pdf'

    (3) Like all PWG Informational documents they do NOT receive a number
        - this avoids confusion about "what's on PWG standards track?"

    [Note - IPP Fax Requirements have already been formally approved and
    were published in the Informational category in February 2004]

    I propose to revise the ABNF for the PWG Process/2.0 naming in:

      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/informational/pwg-namespace-policy.txt

    and add the generic 'info-' prefix as follows:

      infopfx = "req" / ; Requirements (w/ SHOULD)
                    "bp" / ; Best Practice (w/ SHOULD)
                    "ch" / ; Charter (w/ scope/milestones)
                    "info" ; Informational Specification

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    PS - I sure hope folks like this idea, because I think it's very
    much in the practical spirit of the PWG.

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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