netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:40:11 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015, at 10:08, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:08:26 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
> > I think his point is that you'll be making changes to an RFC specified
> > protocol.
> 
> The RFC is only informational, it has never became an Internet
> standard (under the RFC terms). And no other OS picked it up. Keeping
> kernel uAPI documentation in IETF database sounds rather inefficient.

I would suggest you simply add a description to the rfc via the errata
process here: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_report.php>

The original cover letter should be enough to post there. I am also not
sure if people do really implement this spec, at least they have a
pointer to it, then. AFAIK the IESG will look into that then and even
non-approved erratas will be listed on the rfc page.

Bye,
Hannes
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