On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:24:21PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 15/Dec/10 03:02, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > IMHO, whether to use temporal coordinates (where available) should be > left to authors' judgment. Some authors diligently monitor the > relevant Wikipedia pages. It makes no difference whether authors monitor the relevant Wikipedia pages, because you can't update the references section of the RFC once it's published. I find it slightly astonishing that the RFC Editor's instuctions on URLs don't require a visited-on parameter. Just about every academic style guide requires such a note for the obvious reason that the target of a URL can change. The whole reason we have the citation traditions we do is so that someone can follow the reference later and look up the material in question. This is an important feature of any reference, because without it the citation is all but worthless: it does nobody any good if you include a citation and then nobody can check whether you understood (or even quoted) the material correctly. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf