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Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 12 August 2017 18:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> And by writing the above text, I realise that I agree with that 4861
    >> probably need to have some kind of "errata" against it as well,

    > That's why the RFC Editor needs to update the metadata for both RFCs.

    > The error is the missing "updates", and that is an error in 6275.

    > The consequence of validating that error is a change to the metadata
    > for both RFCs.

Exactly!!

I think that the IESG should be able to create new forward references without
publishing new documents.   It should be a relatively cheap operation.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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