editorial comment to 2009-07 idnabis draft

[John C Klensin]

--On Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 07:47 +0200 Patrik Fältström
<patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 18 jul 2009, at 11.27, Nicolas Krebs wrote:
> 
>>> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:36:37 -0400
>>> From: John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com>
>>> To: Nicolas Krebs <nicolas1.krebs3 at netcourrier.com>,
>>> idna-update at alvestrand.no Subject: Re: editorial comment to
>>> 2009-07 idnabis draft
>> 
>>> These suggestions increase work to stay synchronized with
>>> other document
>> 
>> Indeed. Without my suggestion,
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-05#secti
>> on-9.2 would be updated from
> 
> I think those kind of references that are updated
> automatically are dangerous as there are changes between the
> versions, and we editors for example in this WG are working
> quite hard to try to sync as much as possible between the
> versions of our respective documents. I did not update the
> tables document during the spring, and that created some
> problems BUT, on the other hand, version 5 of tables did NOT
> reference version 9 of the definitions document. It referenced
> version 5.
> 
> My point is that it is not always good to automatically rev
> the versions in the references to the I-Ds.

While I decided on what is essentially a middle ground -- using
a URL that always points to the latest version while manually
changing dates to identify which version I was looking at when
assembling the draft-- I basically agree with Patrik's reasoning
and explanation.

     john