Summary

  • The 12 October proposed charter lists four adopted documents for completion; the 7 October version listed six, including Ethernet proxying and UDP to multiple hosts.
  • The Ethernet draft, revision 16, remains in IESG AD Followup. The changed work list does not say why either item was removed or what will happen to it.

The latest MASQUE charter draft shortens the list of work the group says it will finish before closing. The Ethernet document that left that list is still on a separate path: the IESG tracker shows it in publication follow-up. The juxtaposition is a governance update, not an approval or cancellation notice.

The proposed charter version 03-03 was updated on 12 October and remained in External Review on the Datatracker record. It says the working group will complete the adopted documents listed there and close. The four are an ECN and DSCP extension for CONNECT-UDP; HTTP Datagram field compression and derivation; an extension to improve QUIC proxying; and DNS and PREF64 configuration carried in HTTP Capsules. It also leaves room for an informational MASQUE architecture document and a standards-track qlog document, while limiting other work to what the charter lists. The 03-03 charter

The preceding 03-02 snapshot, dated 7 October, listed two more adopted items: proxying Ethernet frames over HTTP and proxying UDP to multiple hosts over HTTP. Both lines are absent from 03-03. The documents do not explain the reason. They do not say the work was rejected, completed, abandoned, or transferred to another group. The 03-02 snapshot

The Ethernet draft’s own record is different. Revision 16 was updated on 9 October. Datatracker lists its working-group state as “Submitted to IESG for Publication” and its IESG state as “AD Followup”; the page also says a DISCUSS position remains and that it has enough positions to pass once DISCUSS positions are resolved. That is a document-level publication review, not a statement about the proposed charter’s remaining-work list. The draft status page

The sequence has an earlier chapter, but it does not establish the reason for the latest edits. On 24 September, a Block on the 03-01 charter objected that its closure language sat beside a list omitting the QUIC-proxy and DNS/PREF64 documents. The 7 October 03-02 version included those two, as well as Ethernet and multi-host UDP. The 12 October version retains QUIC proxying and DNS/PREF64 while dropping the latter pair. The historical ballot documents a concern about 03-01; it is not a current ballot position on 03-03. The 03-01 Block

The IESG’s 7 October announcement said no determination had been made at that time and invited comments by 17 October. The current proposal is listed on the 22 October telechat agenda under rechartering, “proposed for approval.” That is a scheduled decision point, not its outcome. The review notice · The IESG agenda

The practical distinction is narrow but consequential: a charter sets the work the group is being asked to finish; an individual draft can continue through IESG publication review on its own record. Reading the shorter list as a publication decision would overstate it. Reading the Ethernet draft’s IESG state as proof that the group will retain or complete the work would overstate that record too. The public pages establish two process states and leave the reason for the scope change open.

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