Greetings,

On December 9, 2004, a Last Call, ending January 6, 2005, was issued on the document "draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-02".

A vigorous debate resulted on the IETF list, and several new versions were published - the last one being draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-07, published on Friday, February 11, 2005

I believe that this document now represents an IETF consensus (rough in some places, but rather smooth on the general principles), and that this is now ready for formal approval by the IESG and for the ISOC BoT to state its agreement on it.

In light of the importance we attach to this document, formal IESG approval will not be announced before February 18, 2005 - seven days after the last version of the document was published.

The debate on the document can be found in the archives of the IETF list, and in the issue tracker maintained for the document - this can be located via the AdminRest page . I encourage people to review these archives.

Harald Alvestrand