Re: issue with the URLs in the ID boilerplate

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at wonderhamster.org>]

Good morning, Lars,

 

I may still be asleep, but my sense of (IDs = IETF-IDs + Other-IDs) is that you're saying in the current text that the Internet-Draft repository contains all IDs, but it really contains IETF-IDs, right?

 

If so, I'd suggest s/The Internet-Draft repository/The IETF Internet-Draft repository/.

 

Thanks,

 

Spencer

----- Original Message -----

From: Lars Eggert

To: Martin J. Dürst

Cc: Spencer Dawkins ; Working Group Chairs

Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:05 AM

Subject: Re: issue with the URLs in the ID boilerplate

Hi,

On 2009-10-24, at 8:11, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2009/10/23 23:26, Lars Eggert wrote:
>>> Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
>>> Task Force (IETF). The Internet-Draft repository is online at
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/. Note that other groups may
>>> also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
>
> The last sentence is open to misunderstandings. It should say 
> something
> like "Note that mirrors of this repository may be available 
> elsewhere."
>
> "other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
> Drafts"
> suggests that people can call things that are not submitted properly
> "Internet-Draft".

I think the last sentence is actually supposed to mean "not all 
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the IETF", but I agree that 
my (too casual) edit probably destroyed that meaning. Here's a new 
attempt:

    Most Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet 
Engineering
    Task Force (IETF).  Note that other groups may also distribute
    working documents as Internet-Drafts. The Internet-Drafts repository
    can be accessed at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/.

    Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six 
months
    and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
    time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
    material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."

    This Internet-Draft will expire on April 29, 2010.

All feedback I've seen so far on making this change has been positive; 
I'll take this up with the rest of the IESG once we have a final 
agreement on the text.

Lars