Subject: [Rift] Stable thrift standard reference for IETF

From: Antoni Przygienda <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:21:30 +0000

Thrift Ladies and Thrift Gentlemen,

IETF standards body (https://www.ietf.org/) is working by now on publication of standards document that use Thrift schemas as normative appendices (basically IDL for exchanged data)

Currently the question arose how to normatively reference thrift specification for IETF standards purposes. AFAIK, the current specs are stored on

https://github.com/apache/thrift/tree/master/doc/specs

and have been stable for a long time but since it’s a git referring to it via a link is too unstable for IETF standardization process. Also, the format does not contain IPR notices and similar things that IETF normally preconditions in its standards.

Multiple paths are possible, e.g., re-publishing the specification of thrift as IETF drafts which has been done before for other technologies

You will find the reference specification and clarification documents in ietf rfcs/drafts

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3967

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-atlas-external-normref-00

I would be interested to hear what thrift community thinks is the right way to go here

thanks

  *   Tony

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