editorial comment to 2009-07 idnabis draft

[John C Klensin]

--On Saturday, 18 July, 2009 11:27 +0200 Nicolas Krebs
<nicolas1.krebs3 at netcourrier.com> 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#sectio
> n-9.2 would be updated from 
>...

Aha!  You are talking about Tables, not my small collection of
documents.  I may have been totally confused -- probably of your
saying "idnabis draft" in the subject line rather than being
more specific.

Could you take a careful look at the recently-posted
Protocol-13, and tell me if it meets your needs/desires?    If
it does not, could you explain, using a specific example,
exactly what you are looking for?

My guess from the examples you gave is that Patrik is using
<series> elements in xml2rfc.   I gave up on it a while ago for
I-Ds (too much trouble to keep updated, too little payoff) and
started putting the link into a "target" attribute on the
<reference> element.

A fix to incorporate the citation with every mention of the
document isn't going to happen for the reasons already
explained, but, if the concern is how the references are
written, I'd at least like to better understand what you are
asking for.  If it is easily done and doesn't violate some norm,
I think you can assume that it will happen.

    john