Re: How to get feedback on published RFCs

[Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]>]

On 19/07/16 14:49, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Yaron,
> At 02:35 19-07-2016, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>> Once an RFC is published, there is essentially no way for readers to
>> provide feedback: what works, what are the implementation pitfalls,
>> how does the document relate to other technologies or even to other RFCs.
>
> [snip]
>
>> There is a number of tools now that allow "web annotations" (i.e.,
>> comments) on various published documents. I submitted a draft [1]
>> recently that proposes to enable annotations on the "tools" version of
>> our RFCs. Technically, this is a trivial change. From a process point
>> of view it is more complicated and merits discussion on this list.
>> Sec. 6 of the draft allows you to see for yourself what such
>> annotations would look like.
>
> I recall that this has been discussed before.
> draft-sheffer-ietf-rfc-annotations-00 is proposing an IETF process
> experiment to enable web annotations on published RFCs.  Would that
> cover RFCs published in the IAB Stream?

Yes, the current proposal would cover all published RFCs.

>
> As the proposed experiment identifies "tools" RFCs, it shouldn't affect
> the archival series.

This is correct.

   Section 4.1 mentions that there is room for
> abuse.  I read some negative comments on the web about a RFC which I
> edited.  In my opinion it is fair criticism.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy