ps - the name includes the version number > On Dec 7, 2024, at 8:15 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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/ >
