On 28 Aug 2019, at 10:57, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
Labeling what we roll out as beta, and more importantly noting that
there are further changes that are needed, makes sense to me.
Me too.
With an important caveat. That was not how I read your note, which
is why I was asking.
There is an issue in that we will either need to preserve the beta
code permanently, or be able to convert any beta RFCs with formatting
preserved into final RFCs.
Yes.
If all the changes are extensions, that clearly works. However, if
they are not, I wonder how we publish RFCs with requisite permanence.
There will always be that question because there will at some point
likely be a v4.
The question is whether the community wants to review all the proposed
changes to RFC 7991 before the RFC Editor starts publishing things in
XML format. As Julian points out, there are dozens of open issues that
have been filed on RFC 7991 and on the changes being made by the
contractor. Should we deal with those now, or should we basically agree
to having an incompatible v4 format in about a year? My preference would
be "do the review now".
--Paul Hoffman
