Re: [Iasa20] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7776bis-02: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Alissa Cooper <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ben,

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:39 AM, Benjamin Kaduk via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7776bis-02: Discuss
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> DISCUSS:
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> I would like to discuss a little bit exactly what we want to happen to
> the metadata attached to RFC 7776.  It seems reasonable to apply the
> same "the logical updated version of the document has this new text not
> this old text" treatment we are giving the body contents to the bits at
> the top of the first page (to the extent that it is reasonable to do at
> all, viz. Magnus's Discuss).  But are we also asking for any of the
> "live" metadata in the indices associated with the RFC Series to change,
> even though that would bring them in conflict with the immutable RFC
> artifacts?

No. Just noting it as a logical consequence, I think.

Thanks,
Alissa

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> COMMENT:
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> It's also not entirely clear to me that we need to Update 7776 to remove
> the references to its updating of 7437, since
> RFC-7776-the-immutable-artifact does/did indeed update 7437; it's just
> that 7437 itself is no longer current/relevant.
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