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Re: "RFC4941bis" and draft-gont-6man-non-stable-iids

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 21 July 2017 04:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: "RFC4941bis" and draft-gont-6man-non-stable-iids
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, Tim Chown <Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk>
Cc: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com>, "6man@ietf.org" <6man@ietf.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 20/07/2017 23:58, Fernando Gont wrote:
...
> My mental model is that a bis document essentially incorporates errata
> and minor changes to a previous RFC. But this doesn't seem whre we want
> to go here.

I think that is actually an over-interpretation** of the suffix "bis".

It isn't in any way an IETF rule, it's just a habit (copied from ISO
or ITU-T, I suspect). All it tells me is that draft-something-rfc9999bis
is intended to *obsolete and replace* RFC 9999. That doesn't mean that
it is based directly on the text of RFC 9999, although it might be, and
often is, for convenience.

It's only an ill-defined naming convention, in the end.

** and the dictionary meaning is different: twice; for a second time; again; once more.

   Brian

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