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Just a note that this is an "Internet Draft", without any particular standards status. I.e., anyone can submit an I-D and the IETF will publish it. As a genera
by ekr____ 4y ago
Just a note that this is an "Internet Draft", without any particular standards status. I.e., anyone can submit an I-D and the IETF will publish it.
As a general matter, if you see a document with the name "draft-ietf-<something>" that means it's been accepted by an IETF WG and so is potentially on its way to being an RFC (though of course some documents never make it). If it is named "draft-<someones-name>-<something>" then it's just a document someone submitted. That doesn't make it bad: most RFCs start this way, but it just means it's not anything the IETF is officially working on. This document is "draft-sporny" and AFAIK, no IETF WG has taken it up.
This is something that often confuses people about the IETF, so hopefully this helps.
- skissane 4y agoThat's true. However, I also note this: This specification is a work product of the W3C Digital Verification Community Group [1] and the W3C Credentials Community Group [2]. Feedback related to this specification should be logged in the issue tracker [3] or be sent to public-credentials@w3.org [4]. So, while it isn't (at least thus far) an IETF WG RFC, it comes from a W3C "Community Group" – which is a step below even a W3C Working Group, yet simultaneously a step above "J. Random Hacker has some idiosyncratic ideas and decides to upload them as an Internet Draft" or even "MegaCorp has invented a proprietary standard to meet the specific needs of their product and now wants it published unchanged as an RFC to give them an advantage over their competitors"
- JoachimS 4y agoAlso worth noting us that the latest version of this draft (07) expired more than a year ago - November 3, 2021. The authors have not published a new version nor being able to get it moved forward through the IETF process.