[rfc-i] Re: I-D expiry [was Re: RFCs vs Standards]

2024-12-07 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 8. Dec 2024, at 02:15, Stephen Farrell wrote: > > > Hiya, > > On 07/12/2024 23:51, Carsten Bormann wrote: >> any I-D) being inappropriate to cite > > Well, I-Ds truly are not great things to cite because: > > - if you only cite the file name(e.g. [1]) then the > content may have changed wh

[rfc-i] Re: [saag] Re: RFCs vs Standards

2024-12-07 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2024-12-06, at 02:28, Joel Halpern wrote: > > While we could change the policies, historically there have been very good > reasons why "specification required" does not have "openly available" as a > requirement. Among other things, we generally don't tell other SDOs how to > do business (