Re: How to get feedback on published RFCs

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

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?

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