[Nemops-interest] Re: [Nemops-workshop-attendees] Re: Re: [arch-d] Re: Shepherd review of draft-iab-nemops-workshop-report-02
Jürgen Sch?nw?lder <jschoenwaelder@constructor.university> Thu, 10 July 2025 06:23 UTC
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From: Jürgen Sch?nw?lder <jschoenwaelder@constructor.university>
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For a layman, this is all a bit weird. A workshop is an event taking place at a specific point in time and a workshop report summarizes main ideas discussed at that event. A workshop taking place N years later is a different event leading to a new report summarizing the main ideas discussed at that new event. In other words, a workshop report documents what took place at a specific point in time, and this does not change if there is another workshop N years later. >From this perspective, there is nothing to update, nothing to obsolete. Workshop reports record thoughts and ideas presented at a workshop at a specific point in time in order to have a historic record and that record just does not change because there is another workshop. I understand that the IETF uses RFC meta data called 'updates' and 'obsoletes' to link documents, and these meta data tags have been given more specific semantics over the years. But once we write prose saying that the workshop report X+1 updates the workshop report X, we likely confuse the layman reader since we start to write in terms of the semantics of RFC meta data. /js On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 03:30:45PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: > Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> writes: > > > > Dhruv: I added -?This document updates RFC 3535 as the report of the > > > follow-up IAB workshop on Network Management. > > > > In the IETF stream, that would require the document to clearly > > identify the changes that it makes to the previous RFC. If you are > > declaring RFC 3535 to be OBE, it should be "obsoletes", logically. But > > simply marking it Historic seems enough to me. > > IMHO, it's another data point collection that does "update" the > original. But I don't think the new workshop completely covered all the > topics from the previous (nor was it intending to) and much of the > original document is likely still valid. Admittedly, it would be rather > hard (to Brian's point) to list all the ways that it was performing an > update. > > How about: This document updates RFC 3535 with new information gathered > from the discussions at the second IAB workshop on the future of Network > Management. > > And optionally: Note that the goal of the second workshop was not to > invalidate and replace the first, but rather to extend the discussion > with new lessons learned that have occurred since that time. > > And optionally: Both documents tell the history of the evolution of > network management needs over time. > > > -- > Wes Hardaker > USC/ISI > > _______________________________________________ > Nemops-workshop-attendees mailing list -- nemops-workshop-attendees@iab.org > To unsubscribe send an email to nemops-workshop-attendees-leave@iab.org -- Jürgen Sch?nw?lder Constructor University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany
- [Nemops-interest] Shepherd review of draft-iab-ne… Alvaro Retana
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: Shepherd revie… Brian E Carpenter
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: Shepherd revie… Wes Hardaker
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [Nemops-workshop-attendees]… Jürgen Sch?nw?lder
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [Nemops-worksh… Arnaud Taddei
- [Nemops-interest] Re: Shepherd review of draft-ia… Wes Hardaker
- [Nemops-interest] Re: Shepherd review of draft-ia… Dhruv Dhody
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [Nemops-worksh… Wes Hardaker
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [EXTERNAL] [Nemops-workshop… Reshad Rahman
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [EXTERNAL] [Nemops-workshop… Jürgen Sch?nw?lder
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [EXTERNAL] [Ne… Alvaro Retana
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [Nemops-workshop-attendees]… Mahesh Jethanandani
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [Nemops-worksh… Salz, Rich
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [Nemops-worksh… Mahesh Jethanandani
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [Nemops-workshop-attendees]… Kristian Larsson
- [Nemops-interest] Re: [arch-d] Re: [Nemops-worksh… S Moonesamy