Mike, --On Wednesday, January 12, 2022 21:21 -0500 Michael StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/12/2022 7:44 PM, Larry Masinter wrote: >> If there is some kind of abuse you are aiming to quell, some >> examples might be helpful. > > Hi Larry - > > It's not so much about quelling abuse as it might be in > reinforcing expectations. > > This has been the expectation basically from the first moment > that the ID system was created (right after the meeting at > Boulder NCAR): > >> It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference >> material or to cite them other than as "work in progress" > > And that was reinforced in some ways by the original manual > submission model for IDs. Over time, the tools have changed > some of that calculus and most drafts get posted without human > intervention, and the old versions of a draft now have fairly > stable references as a side effect of how the tooling was > built. Everyone looks at diffs when reviewing documents. When I was IETF Chair, I made the decision, after discussion with the IESG, to keep I-Ds online so that the rfcdiff tool made diffs easy for all. <snip> Russ
