> Of course we have mailing lists, issue trackers, and wikis, but the
> problem is that none of them are for RFCs.
In addition, those tools seem to be intended rather for IETF internal
use than for general public.
I would say that "IETF internal use" would refer to chairs, ADs, the RFC Editor (which is not a function that's part of the IETF, by the way), and so on. It's very easy for anyone, including my mother, should she want to, to get a login to the IETF tools system. We could perhaps make it more obvious that one is needed, and how to do it, but I don't know that it's any more of a hurdle than any of the 17,000 other web things that require a "free one-time signup".
Anyway, as I said, we haven't sorted out how we would do this, and it might be that something even easier than what we have now would be in order.
It is /not difficult/ to find errata. "Easy" would mean that people
usually find them even if they're not purposely looking for them. For
example, the existence of an approved errata could be signaled by
coloring the margin near the relevant text.
I like this idea. Not colour, maybe -- despite the errata tool's format, not all errata nicely fit into OLD/NEW text, and one often needs the explanation even for those that do -- but perhaps an "errata" icon in the margin next to the relevant text. One could click the icon and be sent straight to that erratum.
The trouble is that I can't see how we could do that automatically, so it would require significant extra manual processing. I don't have stats on how many errata are "Verified" (and we'd only do this sort of thing for those, I imagine), nor any real idea of how much extra work it would be for someone to add the erratum links. But no argument at all about how useful it would likely be.
Barry