[dns-operations] Announcing the OARC BCP infrastructure

[Matthijs Mekking]

Hi all,

At the OARC 45 meeting, we announced the start of creating a group 
inside the OARC community to create a DNS Best Current Practices set of 
documents:

   https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/55/contributions/1203/

Now there is an infrastructure available to facilitate this work. The 
source of the documents are being maintained inside a GitLab subproject at:

   https://gitlab.com/DNS-OARC/bcp


A few important things to do were to explain the goals of this 
initiative, and define process structure. I started a first BCP project 
titled "How to write DNS-OARC BCP documents" to document this:

   https://gitlab.com/DNS-OARC/bcp/0000-howto-bcp

The project is hooked up with "Read the Docs" and the document can be 
read here:

   https://oarc-bcp-0000.readthedocs.io

This is a living document, as BCP documents tend to be, so I encourage 
you to read it, and to participate. You can do so, ideally by creating 
merge requests and issues at the GitLab project, as the document 
currently explains, or otherwise by sending an e-mail to 
dns-operations at dns-oarc.net, or by using the DNS-OARC Mattermost 
instance. There is a dedicated channel there:

   https://chat.dns-oarc.net/community/channels/dns-bcp

There are in fact already two issues on the document:

   https://gitlab.com/DNS-OARC/bcp/0000-howto-bcp/-/issues

One is about what markup language to use. Personally, I started with 
RestructedText, but perhaps Markdown is easier to use, lower bar and all?

The other is whether the current infrastructure, where every document is 
maintained in a separate project is the right choice, or if all BCP 
documents should live in a single project.

We welcome feedback from the community on these issues, as well as on 
the whole setup.

Best regards,

Matthijs