RE: References to prior work (was: Re: Last call comments about draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07)

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

> From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:paul.hoffman at vpnc.org] 

> Fully disagree. A reference to a dead document that the 
> reader cannot find directly provides no histor nor context. 

Many of the most important events in history are only known through second hand accounts.

We are in danger of falling into the peculiar trap that Wikipedia has set for itself where if a thing isn't on the Web it didn't happen.

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> From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:paul.hoffman at vpnc.org] 

> Fully disagree. A reference to a dead document that the 
> reader cannot find directly provides no histor nor context. 

Many of the most important events in history are only known through second hand accounts.

We are in danger of falling into the peculiar trap that Wikipedia has set for itself where if a thing isn't on the Web it didn't happen.

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