editorial comment to 2009-07 idnabis draft

[Vint Cerf]

reference to transient documents is inappropriate in RFCs which we  
hope these documents will become.

v

On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:16 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

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> --On Thursday, July 16, 2009 21:50 +0100 Vint Cerf
> <vint at google.com> wrote:
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>> I think the conflict with editor's standards dictates no
>> change. Perhaps the point might be made to the rfc editor as a
>> matter of common interest? V
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> The problem is that, in general, the RFC  Editor doesn't like
> including references to transient documents like I-Ds.  When
> these documents are published as RFCs, they will presumably all
> be published together, the I-D references will be resolved into
> RFC ones, and there will be no issue.
>
> With regard to the RFCs themselves (such as the base DNS
> references), my basic policy, as editor, is to cite them the
> first time they appear in the document and then again only when
> the pointers seem particularly important since a bracketed
> pointer to a reference gets very ugly in running text.  That is
> also consistent with long-standing RFC conventions but is
> inconvenient for anything trying to create hyperlinks for each
> and every time the external spec is referenced.
>
> I'm willing to change my mind about this if you tell me to or if
> there is strong evidence that it will make the WG more
> efficient, but it otherwise appears to me to be extra work with
> fairly little substantive payoff.
>
>   john
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>    john
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