On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:45:28AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: > On 12/9/2014 8:36 AM, John Levine wrote: > > 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. > > Well, there is certainly a higher barrier to access for a paper document > or one behind a paywall than there is for something that is only one > click away. Whoops, I wasn't clear! I meant that new RFCs must be available online (obviously, old ones that can't be found online... might never be). Further down in my post this became clear when I pointed out that we can't require external docs to be available online. But it should have been clear here. Nico --