>> To the best of my knowledge, there has _never_ been a >> requirement that cited documents be available online, and >> especially that authoritative copies be available online. > >But perhaps there should be one as to new RFCs. That means nobody can cite a printed book, or an article from an ACM or IEEE journal. (To the extent the latter two are online, they're PDFs behind a paywall.) This seems to me to be making rules for the sake of making rules, not because there is a problem that needs to be solved. R's, John