From: "Dassa" <dassa@xxxxxxx> To: "'Iljitsch van Beijnum'" <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx>; "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "'IETF Discussion'" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: RE: Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents) > > Personally and from observation it would appear RFCs are stand alone > documents that do not get revised. They get superseded by new RFCs covering > the same topic. Perhaps the way to approach this particular issue is to > provide better navigation aids through the various RFCs so that it is easier > for users to find all the related documents showing the relationship > (timeline and validity) between the documents. A more involved and > comprehensive document management system. Yes, exactly, and if anyone following this thread has not read http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-loughney-what-standards-01.txt yet, that's unfortunate. John Loughney is faithfully working this issue, without a lot of feedback, positive or negative, and he is SO right. My suggestion is to read this draft and provide feedback on Newtrk (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/newtrk.html). Thanks, Spencer