Re: Change in I-D announcement format

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

And now there seems to be another unannounced change, in that in
addition to the usual announcement format e-mails, there may also be, or
may not be, the appearance seems random, of

Subject: New Version Notification -

e-mails.  This may or may not be an improvement, depending on how long
it takes me to work out what is happening and whether or not I then like
my conclusion.  And whether or not what I rely on is still available.

Tom Petch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Housley" <[e-mail]>
To: "Brian E Carpenter" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "IETF discussion list" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Change in I-D announcement format


Brian:

There was no announcement that this change was about to be deployed;
however, there was a long discussion of the change.  It started with a
request for the HTML version of the I-D instead of the plain text
version.  At the end of the discussion the decision was to use the
Datatracker URL as it allows anyone to get the plaintext or a diff with
just one more click.

Russ


On Jun 13, 2012, at 3:47 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Did I miss an announcement of the change in format of
> I-D announcement messages?
>
> There's no longer a URL for the standard .txt format. That's
> mildly annoying for me (extra time and extra mouse clicks)
> and must be a nuisance for anyone who processes these messages
> automatically.
>
> At least, I would have expected a warning message about the change.
>
> --
> Regards
>   Brian Carpenter
>
>