Re: How to get feedback on published RFCs

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Tue, 19 July 2016 17:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to get feedback on published RFCs
To: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>
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On Tue 19/Jul/2016 14:49:36 +0200 S Moonesamy wrote:
> At 02:35 19-07-2016, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>
>> 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.

I recall a 2012 occasion[*] where I asked for a better tool than errata held 
for document revision.

[*] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg07284.html

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

Annotations are stored separately.  In principle, notes sticked to a given URL 
can be displayed anywhere.

Ale