With GFDs, the GGF archives immutable documents (same as RFCs in the IETF). The GGF process further notes that:

A Grid Forum document may be designated as obsolete when it is superseded by another
document. The obsolete designation clearly indicates that the document no longer reflects
current thinking, but still recognizes the document?s contributions by allowing it to be referenced
and consulted. A stronger designation of historical is used, primarily for technical specifications
or specific recommendations, to indicate that the specification should no longer be used. In order
to change a GFD status to historical, a GFD-I is necessary to explain the reasoning.

No doubt, the community is progressing in the understanding of network requirements posed by the Grid, while networking research continues to offer new capabilities ... therefore, it is well worth to a) track all updates to the netissues-4 draft and b) batch them into a substantial new release, which will obsolete GFD.37 and will appear 1 year or 18 months from now. As well, it is possible to create a companion document capturing a deeper dive into one of the subject areas (e.g., multicast for the Grid).

-franco



At 06:11 AM 11/25/2004, Volker Sander wrote:
I think we can submit a new document that replaces/outdates the
existing one. I guess we should take the time to produce a substantially improved
version


Franco, Jon: What do you think?


Volker

Marinho P Barcellos schrieb:

Hello all

 


On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:37, Volker Sander wrote: 
All:
I just got the mail that the original version is approved for
publication (GFD-I.37). I propose to continue with our editing and
create a secind version
that includes the discussed changes and potentially more.
   


Volker, how does this work? I don't know exactly what it means to have
the 
document "approved", then my question is: is it possible to
evolve the 
document to incorporate required corrections, recommended improvements 
and contents and style, and optional additions?

On Friday 19 November 2004 14:44, Volker Sander wrote:
 


yes, I was also thinking about adding Marinho to the list of
authors,
so i am with your proposal
   


I acknowledge that, thank you. 

On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:07, Marco Tana wrote:
 


Because of I posted material about multicast too, I'd like to
consider
Marinho's proposal related to an integration about current
implementations (MDP, NORM, etc.). So if you agree I can do this job
with him as a first step of revision.
I'll come back to my office next Tuesday...so I look forward to reading
your remarks and, possibly, the comments addressing plan.
   


Marco should be back to office now and we will discuss the part about 
multicast. Could you please get in touch, Marco?

Regards, Marinho.

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University of Manchester and BT Research Labs/UK
On leave from UNISINOS University, Brazil
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