Re: [apps-discuss] process and editing questions: RFC errata

[t.petch <[e-mail]>]

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From: "Erik Wilde" <[e-mail]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:09 PM

> hello.
>
> i have two process and editing questions:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-xml-patch-03#section-6
> specifically links to errata i have filed regarding RFC 5261. it seems
> to me that these errata are legitimate, and that they simply weren't
> caught earlier. draft-wilde-xml-patch is almost complete, and i am
> wondering about the following things:
>
> - how to best sync draft development, and the submitted errata. there
> seems to be no way to predict when and how errata are processed, in
> particular for RFC 5261 because the author seems to be unreachable.

Indeed!  Bear in mind that the text of an RFC is available for further
processing within the IETF so while it is desirable that the original
author is involved in any updates thereto, that is not a requirement
thereof so if you cannot get any response from them, then submitting an
RFC5261-bis yourself is quite in order; but quite a lot of work.

A simpler approach is to include the relevant changes in
draft-wilde-xml-patch
and state that this is an update to the relevant sections of  RFC5261.
These should give more context than the errata do but need not be much
longer.

Or you can include sections that clarify the issues you have identified
in RFC5261 and state in your I-D that your I-D is based on this
interpretation ie you are not updating RFC5261 for the world at large
but are modifiying the content thereof for the purposes of your I-D.

Or you can make normative references to errata by URL once they are
approved.  I think this the most fraught approach and so the least
desirable.

Tom Petch

> - if the errata are accepted, how to reference them in the draft. it
> would be important that people following references to RFC 5261 from
the
> draft do not just read the RFC, but also take the errata into account
> when implementing the spec.
>
> thanks a lot and cheers,
>
> dret.
>
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