editorial comment to 2009-07 idnabis draft

[Patrik Fältström]

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#section-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.

    Patrik

> _________________
> 9.2.  Informative References
>
>   [IDNA2008-definitions]
>              Klensin, J., Ed., "Internationalized Domain Names for
>              Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
>              December 2008, <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>              draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-05.txt>.
> __________________
> to
> __________________
> 9.2.  Informative References
>
>   [IDNA2008-definitions]
>              Klensin, J., Ed., "Internationalized Domain Names for
>              Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
>              June 2009, <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>              draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-09.txt>.
> __________________
>
> altought  with my suggestion it would be updated from
> __________________
> 9.2.  Informative References
>
>   [IDNA2008-definitions]
>              Klensin, J., Ed., "Internationalized Domain Names for
>              Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
>              December 2008, <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>              draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-05.txt> draft-ietf-idnabis- 
> defs-05 .
> __________________
> to
> __________________
> 9.2.  Informative References
>
>   [IDNA2008-definitions]
>              Klensin, J., Ed., "Internationalized Domain Names for
>              Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
>              June 2009, <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>              draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-09.txt> draft-ietf-idnabis- 
> defs-09 .
> __________________
>
>
>> and are inconsistent with the RFC Editor's standards.
>
> Sorry, I did not know that.
>
>> Unless there is considerable belief on the part of the WG that
>> making them would improve efficiency, I'm disinclined to make
>> them.
>
> As you wish.
>
>> It would be less effort (although definitely not zero) to
>> generate HTML versions of the documents along with the text
>> ones; I'm more inclined to do that if there is really a
>> requirement of this type.
>
> I don't understand this sentence, but
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idnabis-defs
> link to the last version of draft-ietf-idnabis-defs.
>
>
>
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