We have "consistent canonical page numbers" in RFCs, which are stable documents. Citations to page numbers in I-Ds are just an invitation to trouble and confusion, since an external page reference to some particular material in, e.g., draft-...-01 is unlikely to be stable into draft-...-03 and draft-...01 is unlikely to be readily available. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why our formal position is that I-Ds are not to be referenced or cited: when someone violates that rule, they are on their own, and neither page numbers nor paragraph/ section numbers are going to help them much.
john
--On Monday, 21 April, 2003 15:15 -0400 "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu> wrote:
While right-thinking people no doubt cite to paragraph and section numbers, the world is not entirely composed of right-thinking people. Having consistent canonical page numbers eliminates a source of potential confusion especially when dealing with groups outside the IETF...
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> Page breaks are highly desirable for I-Ds, because it makes > it easier for people to print them out.
Um, which software that takes a long text file *doesn't* put in page breaks as it sends it to the printer? This has been a standard part of nearly every word processing and text editing program for two decades now...
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