On 2/9/18 2:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
On 2018-02-09 19:23, Russ Housley wrote:
If I have read this properly, the revised paragraph does not appear
in the Internet-Draft boilerplate. Did I get that right?
Russ
On Feb 9, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The IAB recently accepted an erratum
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5248> that pointed out a
grammatical error in the boilerplate text templates in RFC 7841.
While reviewing the erratum, we noticed a similar error in the text
for non-standards-track IETF-stream RFCs and verified that the IESG
was ok correcting that error as well.
The header and boilerplate text is now maintained on a web page,
<https://www.iab.org/documents/headers-boilerplate>, and we have
updated that page and requested update of the relevant tools
maintained by the IETF. If you have your own tools for the
generation of this text, please update them to reflect the update text.
I see <https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/changeset/2410>
- so Henrik was fast.
Trouble with changes like these is that it changes the output for
*existing* documents.
I'd recommend to define a cutover date (such as March 1), and to
continue to produce thee broken text for documens with a publication
date before that day.
We considered that, and it would make sense for a more substantive
change. For these simple grammatical corrections, incorporating the
correction into any future produced RFCs seems more logical.
Best regards, Julian