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Re: [Bier] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-bier-te-arch-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Thu, 26 August 2021 07:21 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:20:51 -0700
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To: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bier] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-bier-te-arch-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Since I almost DISCUSSed the same thing:

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:16 PM Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:

>
> > When I pulled up these docs, and both in tools and datatracker the
>> document
>> > boilerplate has them as experimental. Do you know if this is a generic
>> issue,
>> > or specific to these docs for some reason? I would say that having
>> different
>> > status in different places is highly confusing.
>>
>> Yes, it is confusing.  The problem is that the boilerplate is part of
>
> the RFC, so it's immutable.
>>
>
> Can someone ELI5 why we don't just republish documents when the status
> changes?
>
> It seems like it would be trivial to take RFC8296, and run `sed /Category:
> Experimental/Category: Proposed Standard/`, add "Obsoletes: RFC8296", and
> slap a new number on it...
>
> It is already clear that we will soon need 5 digit RFC numbers, so it's
> not like these are a limited resource...
>

I'd settle for a notation at the top in some attention-getting color, akin
to "Errata Exist", something like "Status Change Exists" and a link to the
status change action, or the new status, or something.

-MSK

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