Re: Backdoor standards?

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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





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