rfc2223bis draft 07, "updates" clarification

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> · Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:14:54 +0100

Hi,

I'd like to see the concept of an RFC "updating" another RFC clarified. 
Currently the draft says:

         Updates

            Specifies an earlier document whose contents are modified or
            augmented by the new document.  The new document cannot be
            used alone, it can only be used in conjunction with the
            earlier document.

The second statement seems to be misleading. For instance, RFC2396 (URI 
syntax) updates previous RFCs that also contained specific URI scheme 
descriptions (such as "ftp"). Thus, it doesn't obsolete them. However, 
RFC2396 clearly can be used without the documents it's updating.

Regards, Julian