Re: ENUM WG Request for Publication - draft-ietf-enum-iax-04.txt

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:41:06PM -0400, Richard Shockey wrote:

> Title                 : IANA Registration for IAX Enumservice
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-enum-iax-04.txt

> A two week WG last call on this document concluded on July 7, 2008.
> 
> The document listed above is being considered for Proposed Standard.

so, for the process addicts amongst us - what is the solution to the
downref problem?
There is a normative reference to <draft-guy-iax-04.txt> and rightfully so.
This drafts sits in the RFC Editor queue for publication as Informational.
RFC 3967, section 2, first bullet item, could be read as a way out of this,
but I doubt it could be appropriately invoked: the only reason that
draft-ietf-enum-iax-04.txt is aiming at Standards Track is that that has been
the only way to get an enum service registered since RRFC 3761.
Now, the IANA registration document update for ENUM services is in WGLC
now and hopefully can be shipped to the IESG soon.  This eliminates the
need for draft-ietf-enum-iax-04.txt going to proposed.  Instead, I've had
hoped - apologies if you heard this a couple of times already - we could
have processed draft-ietf-enum-iax-04.txt under the upcoming ENUM services
guidelines with an exception granted from the IESG as it was done with
RFC2929bis.

What's the plan?

-Peter