Re: Things that used to be clear (was Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/4/19 10:05 AM, Job Snijders wrote:

> 3) Where EDs can really shine is that they provide stable URLs with a
>     short identifier (like the RFCs and BCPs) that can be referenced.
>
> I'm interested to see if we can develop a document type that can
> reflects a working group's understanding of a certain problem spaces
> (like tls settings, cyphers, bgp filters), has received review from
> subject matter experts (the working group participants), the WG chairs
> and perhaps the AD. If these people agree that something is worthwhile
> publishing on the stable URL; why not?

Because it could easily have the extremely undesirable effect of 
promoting premature deployment.

Also, in a sense we already have a "stable URL" - the I-D name without 
the version number.   I was of the impression that the tracker would 
already respond to that, but if not, it's a simple tweak.   In other 
words, don't point people to the document, point them to the tracker 
page that shows more context.

Keith