Announcement: Post-IETF 114 and the future of this Draft

kyzer-davis commented 2 years ago

Hello All,

@bradleypeabody and I recently represented Draft 04 of the UUIDv6/7/8/Max Draft in the last IETF 114 Dispatch session back on July 25th, 2022

The goal of the Dispatch session was to present the work we have already done up through Draft 04 and obtain an official dispatch outcome. That is,

It goes to an existing working group
It's simple enough to be AD-sponsored (i.e. doesn't need lots of community discussion and regular meetings)
It requires a new working group
It goes to ISE (Independent Submissions Editor) because you don't want community input
It needs more work before finding a home

The Outcome

The IETF dispatch opted to officially adopt our work through a new "tightly focused" UUID working group (WG) which is committed to ensuring UUID is one of the IETFs "well maintained standards".
The work in progress charter can be found at this link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-uuidrev/
- Note: 00-03 is the charter version at the time of this announcement: https://www.ietf.org/charter/charter-ietf-uuidrev-00-03.txt

The WG Charter

The most important item to take away from the charter:
- The IETF wants to give RFC4122 a "fresh coat of paint" and replace it with with a net-new document.
In the process we can incorporate the v6/7/8/Max into the new base UUID RFC.
This means things like #119 and other RFC4122 errata's can finally be fixed!
Other Notes: The IETF is not opposed to handling other topics in this WG like Alternate UUID Encoding or UUID Long; however these topics are contingent on delivering the RFC4122 re-write.

What's Next?

The charter for the WG creation will be reviewed by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) on Aug 25 for official adoption by the IETF.
Assuming this WG is adopted @bradleypeabody, Myself and possibly @ben221199 will begin working on the draft which will define/redefine UUIDv1 through UUIDv8, Nil/Max and replace RFC4122.
I will continue to update this thread as I have information to share.

IETF 114 Links

IETF 114 Dispatch Meeting Minutes
IETF 114 Dispatch Recording [Start: 0:58:21] - [Stop: 1:11:34] (Ignore me failing to use their mic setup)
Session Slides

Thanks again to all who have contributed thus far!

kyzer-davis commented 2 years ago

There is a new mailer to track this work over on the IETF if members here want to subscribe so they can contribute any future discussions or watch silently. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/uuidrev

I will also work to ensure any major topics are properly tracked on the issue tracker in this forum.

kyzer-davis commented 2 years ago

The Working Group has been accepted and work shall commence on draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-00 https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/uuidrev/about/

Please subscribe to the mailer to stay in the loop in case I forget to publish something to this announcement thread.

Edit: Historical email communications can be found here: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/uuidrev/

kyzer-davis commented 2 years ago

Timeline Update from last IETF Interim Meeting:

Submit Draft 00 of draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis by Oct 24 (Draft 04 merged with RFC4122 is the goal)
Discuss at IETF 115, Week of Nov 5
Interim Meeting every month, draft release at the end of every month
Goal still to submit to IESG end of March after IETF 116

kyzer-davis commented 2 years ago

Name:       draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis
Revision:   00
Title:      A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace
Document date:  2022-10-17
Group:      uuidrev
Pages:      61
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-00.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis/
Html:           https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-00.html
Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis

Edit:

Diffs:          https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-00