This document describes a process for managing a set of documents.
IMHO, it is a bit onerous; I may be ignorant, but I don't know how to
get an account on tools.ietf.org, and I'm not sure that having ssh
access to the machine is necessary. Approaches used by common
blogging and wiki software seem sufficient for most practical purposes.
Also, I seem to have managed to miss the fundamental set of reasons
that this is set up. RFC 4693 discusses having something less
permanent than and RFC and more referenceable than an internet draft.
Well, ok, but for what purpose? http://tools.ietf.org/html/<draft
name> gives us a permanent record of the most recent and each step in
an internet draft's development. For example, you might check
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-00
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-01
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-02
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-00
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-01
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-02
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-03
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works-04
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-mlpp-that-works
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4542
So internet drafts, however ephemeral we claim them to be, are
versioned and referenceable. I don't know that the final step (the
RFC) is any less permanent than the history we maintain of the drafts
leading up to it.
The great value I see mentioned is that it is in HTML and can
reference images. Personally, expanding our rules on internet drafts
to allow for these seems sufficient to me. Or asserting that posting
of a PDF that allows for "grabbing" of text, which we in fact already
do, would be a good thing. I am very much in favor of xml2rfc-
generated HTML files, which I find easier on the eyes than text format.
In short, under what circumstances would I post an ION instead of an
internet draft? Why would I refer to an ION rather than an internet
draft? This looks like a solution in search of a problem, but I'm
willing to be told I'm missing something.
/lost in a maze of twisty passages, all of them different but looking
remarkably similar...
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