Re: EARLY submission deadline (Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art))

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

Doug Royer wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Doug Royer wrote:
> >
> > > ...  It does no good to discuss text that almost everyone
> > > already knows has problems.
> >
> >
> >
> > ...it was created to ensure that everyone in the room is
> > actually discussing the same thing.
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Perhaps something like SVN could be available. I can 'check in'
> versions and people could quickly diff them.

I use http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/rfcdiff.pyht
very frequently.

> This of course would make old versions of the draft available which
> I feel is useful when you do not remember why something is changed.
>
> I seem to recall that this list discussed if old draft versions should
> be removed or kept.

Many times...

> I do not remember the results.

There's never been a clear consensus on that, and it would in some
interpretations be a formal change to the RFC 2026 standards process.
But being a pragmatist, I also use http://tools.ietf.org/id/
very frequently.

    Brian
>


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