Technical Summary
This document is a compilation of issues found during six
interoperability events and 5 years of experience with implementing,
testing, and using SCTP along with the suggested fixes. This
document provides deltas to RFC 2960 and is organized in a time based
way. Each section describes a problem that was found, details of
the solution, and the snapshot of textual changes or delta for that
problem solution.
The issues are listed in the order they were found or brought up.
The document provides a history of errata and deltas, and therefore
some text is changed several times. The detailed process of
deriving 2960bis from the present document is not discussed in
this document.
Working Group Summary
The working group reviewed the proposal to publish this Informational
record of the issues and fixes to RFC 2960 in this form and gave consent
to this plan. The rationale for publishing it was to cap revisions to
the long and complex RFC 2960 document when the bis effort is
undertaken - this document will be available as the limit on the
normative corrections, corrections that have been discovered and vetted
in interop testing and extensive review.
The Responsible Area Director (also a Chair) did question the intended
status as Informational, since some of the text changes will eventually modify
a Proposed Standard document, RFC 2960. The working group was not
supportive of the document as a Proposed Standard; the WGLC
for the document was for an Informational, because that was the
request made by the authors, and when the AD and the non-AD
Chair proposed a WGLC for PS, there were a few vocal objectors,
including the Editor.
Nevertheless, since RFC 2026 gives the IESG the discretion to modify
intended status of documents as required, the Responsible AD
decided to give the document an IETF Last Call as Proposed Standard
just in case, while still asking the IESG to review the document as
Informational as the WG wished. If the IESG viewed the document as
requiring standards track status, it would have been possible to consider
tht switch further. The IESG agreed after a short discussion that
the document could remain as an Informational.
Protocol Quality
On a number of the deltas, there was considerable review and discussion,
so that not only running code, but also detailed protocol review was
taken into account, and the working group's comments led to new
tests and revision of the deltas.
The Responsible Area Director is Allison Mankin. The WG Chair shepherd
is James Polk.
Note to RFC Editor
Omit reference [2], RFC 2026, from being a citation and from
the normative references.
Abstract
OLD:
Because some text is changed several times the last delta in the text
is the one which should be applied.
NEW:
Because some text is changed several times, the last delta in
the document is the erratum for that text in RFC 2960.
1. Introduction
OLD:
Note that when reading this document one must use care to assure that
a field or item is not updated further on within the document. Each
section should be applied in sequence to the original RFC2960 [7]
since this document is a historical record of the sequential changes
that have been found necessary at various inter-op events and through
discussion on the list.
NEW:
This document is a historical record of sequential changes what have
been found necessary at various interop events and through discussion
on this list.
Note that because some text is changed several times, the last delta
for a text in the document is the erratum for that text in RFC 2960.