On Sep 21, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Pete Resnick <presnick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [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. > As a Gen-ART reviewer, I called it out for exactly the reasons Pete mentions, and care about the same amount :-) But putting it there seems to hurt nothing, and maybe help just a little bit in some cases.