This morning I had reason to re-read parts of RFC3777, and anything that updated it. I find the datatracker WG interface to really be useful, and so I visited http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ first. I guess I could have instead gone to: http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3777 but frankly, I'm often bad with numbers, especially when they repeat... (3777? 3737? 3733?) While http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ lists RFC3777, and in that line, it lists the things that update it, it doesn't actually list the other documents. Thinking this was an error, I asked, and Cindy kindly explained: >http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ lists the documents that were >published by the NOMCOM Working Group. The NOMCOM Working Group was >open from 2002-2004, and only produced one RFC, which is RFC 3777. > >The RFCs that update 3777 were all produced by individuals (that is, >outside of the NOMCOM Working Group), and so aren't listed individually >on the NOMCOM Working Group documents page. I wonder about this as a policy. Seeing the titles of those documents would have helped me find what I wanted quickly (RFC5680 it was)... While I think that individual submissions that are not the result of consensus do not belong on a WG page. But, if the document was the result of consensus, but did not occur in a WG because the WG had closed, I think that perhaps it should appear there anyway. -- Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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