Re: A guide to the IETF's process documents

["todd glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

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From: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>
To: <ipr-wg at ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: A guide to the IETF's process documents


> todd glassey wrote:
>
> > the Normative pointer to the BOF listing is broken
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-narten-successful-bof-01.txt
>
> It's an informative reference.  The link is broken because
> xml2rfc uses the I-D version existing at the time when it
> was invoked.
>
> The BOF I-D was updated, you can generally find the actual
> version by stripping -NN.txt (here -01.txt) and asking the
> tools server:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-narten-successful-bof

Agreed, but the page stiull needs to be fixed.

> To see if that last version of an I-D is expired look at
> the date shown on its first page

That wasnt the point - the issue was that I-D's were used as references for 
a process page without a process for permanently archiving them. So the did 
what all good I-D's do after six months and that is expire - making the 
page's links broken.

> The DISCUSS draft is in
> fact expired, but still available in a section for notes
> written before the ION experiment started:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/discuss-criteria.html
>
> Probably IONs derived from I-Ds should have an URL to the
> generic tools server URL for the last I-D.

Or possibly be granted a state where they dont expire until their are 
formally replaced with an updated Draft or a fully-blown RFC.

> Frank
>
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