Hiya, On 07/12/2024 23:51, Carsten Bormann wrote:
any I-D) being inappropriate to cite
Well, I-Ds truly are not great things to cite because: - if you only cite the file name(e.g. [1]) then the content may have changed when the reader gets to it - if you cite a specific draft number and a newer draft is ever created the reader won't know which was meant unless the author called that out, which is extremely rare - much more common would be that neither author nor reader really know any of these IETF/I-D minutiae. I don't think the above is at all affected by supposed expiry. I-Ds can be very useful things to reference and some such references are done well, but most in the academic literature are done seemingly carelessly or without really understanding what can change. S. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-gendispatch-no-expiry/
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