I have read the statement, and I think it's a bit weak.
I don't feel very clarified, and Tom asked the question I would have.
Ben Campbell <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 11:31 AM, tom petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> To give a practical problem; when an I-D adds new entries to an
>> existing registry, is that an 'Updates'? I have seen ADs firmly tell
>> WG Chairs, holding the contrary opinion, that it is not, and I thought
>> that that was settled, but applying this statement to that situation
>> leaves me in ignorance.
> The intent is that these are usually not “Updates”. But they can be if
> there are special circumstances, which I presume would be documented in
> the text that describes the nature of the update. An individual AD may
> or may not agree with an argument that a particular update is “special”
> in this sense, but I believe we all agree that such special cases are
> in the realm of possibility.
I don't think that this situation is terribly rare or special.
It definitely happens regularly in my opinion.
When doing -bis documents with the intent of Obsoletes a previous document,
I think that all of the Updates: need to be reviewed. I think that Updates:
should be considered in a future context of revising the document.
"if you were revising it now, would you include the new text?"
If the feature/extension is still quite rare, unpopular, or very specific to
very narrow scopes, then I don't think it should Updates:. In most cases
when a document in WG X does an allocation from a document produced by WG Y,
I don't think it's ever an Update. (X!=Y, except when X and Y are clearly
related, such when Y=="Xupdates" or "Xmaint")
When WG X does such an allocation for the WG-X-protocol-foo-extension, then I
think it definitely is an update, but that's not because it did the
allocation, but because of what it does to the protocol.
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