Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-02.txt> (Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web Page) to Informational RFC

[Tony Hansen <[e-mail]>]

Authoritative, no. But definitely referenced by many, many people and 
IMO worthy of a certain amount of care.

     Tony Hansen

On 7/5/2012 11:57 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> --On Thursday, July 05, 2012 23:22 -0400 Tony Hansen
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> I think my point was missed. Section 2 says:
>>
>> All published versions will be archived using URLs of the form
>> <http://www.ietf.org/tao-YYYYMMDD.html>.
>>
>> My question is: Where is there a list of all of the tao
>> version files? How would one be able to find out the name of
>> the previous version so they could do a diff and see what has
>> changed? How can I see a history of the files?
>> ...
> Tony,
>
> Mostly out of curiosity, why do you think it is important.   If
> the Tao were a reference document that was authoritative on IETF
> procedures or the like, it would be a different matter: I can
> think of many reasons why it might be important to establish
> exactly what the rules and procedures were at any given time.
> But, given that it is a non-authoritative tutorial summary
> description of how we do things, I have a certain amount of
> trouble understanding why going to extra effort to maintain a
> long-term back trace is actually important.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>      john
>