Re: Cited documents, was Status of RFC 20

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:45:28AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 12/9/2014 8:36 AM, John Levine wrote:
> > That means nobody can cite a printed book, or an article from an ACM
> > or IEEE journal.  (To the extent the latter two are online, they're
> > PDFs behind a paywall.)
> > 
> > This seems to me to be making rules for the sake of making rules, not
> > because there is a problem that needs to be solved.
> 
> Well, there is certainly a higher barrier to access for a paper document
> or one behind a paywall than there is for something that is only one
> click away.

Whoops, I wasn't clear!  I meant that new RFCs must be available online
(obviously, old ones that can't be found online... might never be).

Further down in my post this became clear when I pointed out that we
can't require external docs to be available online.  But it should have
been clear here.

Nico
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