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Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)

Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> Sat, 20 July 2019 01:16 UTC

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From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:16:03 +1000
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Subject: Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Cc: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>, john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>, ietf <ietf@ietf.org>
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On Sat., 20 Jul. 2019, 08:32 Nico Williams, <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 04:40:14PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:57 PM john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > > Please also see 7540 appendix A - 11 pages - that should not exist.  it
> > > belongs in a LD.  the appendix is incomplete now, it is not specific to
> > > 7540, ....
> >
> > oh good ${diety} wtf :( why would this have been encoded here?
>
> Probably because it was a convenient vehicle for issuing that advice.
>

For what it's worth, I want to undo a similar thing with RFC 8089 -- split
out the appendices to non-standards-track, informational, easy to update
guidance documents. They're the parts people really want standardisation
on, and having *something* to point at, even if it's not rigorous or with
consensus, is better than everyone going their own way.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Kerwin

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