Re: [Tools-discuss] meta-issues on charter discussions

[Tony Hansen <tony at att.com>]

This was posted to the ietf list.

While the charter history pages are nice, they can be made better using 
a format similar to how tools.ietf.org presents RFCs and I-Ds: a 
non-printing list of versions at the top with ways to show differences 
between versions.

Sounds like a job for the tools team. :-)

	Tony Hansen
	tony at att.com

Thomas Narten wrote:
> Re: old charters and such.
>
> While poking around earlier this week, I found:
>
>       http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/history/
>
> (it is hanging of the WG pages, so not that hard to find.)
>
> It appears to be a snapshot of charters whenever they change. But,
> they "change" often due to events that are probably not the kind of
> changes we are thinking about, and there is no indication about what
> has changed, so there are a lot of copies and wading through them to
> find stuff appears pretty daunting. And the history only goes back 3
> years or so...
>
> But they might be a basis for some tools to extract stuff. But, if
> tools are going to do this, it seems like an archival format other
> than HTML would be desirable.