On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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)… Like everything else in the IETF, there's a tools version for this as well: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ You get the same list, but you also get the titles of those RFCs if you mouse over the links.