Re: About referenced documents...

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2007-11-02 08:16, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> Hi -
>
> > From: "Tom Yu" <tlyu at MIT.EDU>
> > To: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>
> > Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: About referenced documents...
> ...
> > Is it wrong to note in a document's References section that a set of
> > standards are technically identical?  It will obviously increase the
> > size of references if an author does this.  If you also believe that
> > we should require authors to distinguish between the dead-tree version
> > of a standard and the online copy of the standard, References sections
> > could get really unwieldy.
> ...
>
> This was the practice in ISO / ITU work back in the days of JTC1/SC21,
> where there were many standards that were either common text or
> technically aligned.

I'm sure the best solution will vary from case to case - the test is
surely whether telling implementors to read a non-official version
will cause interoperability problems.

   Brian

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