[Changing the subject and removing GenArt and the document authors/chairs]
On 9/21/12 10:52 AM, Glen Zorn wrote:
-- The abstract should mention that this obsoletes 5721
Why? There is a statement in the header, 10 lines above the abstract,
that says "Obsoletes: 5721 (if approved)".
The IESG put this into the nits check before my time. The Last Call and
publication announcements normally contain only the abstract, not the
metadata above, and I believe the thinking was that if you are a person
who scans through those announcements, you probably would (and would
want to) take notice of documents that purport to obsolete or update
document that you recognize. We could probably change the tool to add
the metadata to the announcements, but apparently quite a few people
read "abstracting" services that grab the abstracts of newly published
documents. Not much we can do for them.
It's certainly useful to some folks. Necessary? (*Shrug*) Not enough
wasted bits for me to care one way or the other.
pr
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