Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by

Hi all,
  I had a short chat with Mikael about this during the Prague IETF. One of the major issues I have encountered is that we do not, as a community, have a common understanding of what the “Updates:” tag means (or even what it is supposed to mean). Until that gets resolved, there will be no clear indication on when to mark a document as updated and when not to. As for this Erratum, I will hold onto it until we have a better idea on how to proceed. As an example another document in this category is RFC4191 that I personally think should update RFC2461/RFC4861 because of changing the RA flag bits. Similarly, should RFC4389 update RFC4861 for the same reason as well?

Thanks
Suresh

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/08/2017 06:38, Robert Sparks wrote:
>> This is a question for the IESG (it's more a question of policy than it 
>> is tool capability).
> 
> I would say it's a question for the RFC Editor, who would ask for advice
> from the IESG since these are IETF stream documents. (It's the RFC Editor
> who maintains the metatdata for RFCs.)
> 
>    Brian
> 
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure the question's been asked before (and the discussion led 
>> to a "no, if you want to fix this, do it with an RFC").
>> 
>> RjS
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/10/17 1:07 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>> Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
>>>> FYI. I decided to raise an errata against RFC6275 that seems to update
>>>> RFC4861 without this being noted anywhere in either document.
>>> 
>>> Are we able to update the metadata on RFC4861 in response to this errata?
>>> I realize we can't re-issue 6275.
>>> 
>>> Since the Updates is to make sure that readers of 4861 know about new things,
>>> the metadata 4861->6275 (which shows up in the tools page and datatracker for
>>> the old documents) is really the important direction.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>>>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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