I notice that the RFC Editor has a Citations Committee; should they be responding to this issue? Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Wikipedia > 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf