Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Thu, 10 August 2017 18:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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From: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
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This is a question for the IESG (it's more a question of policy than it 
is tool capability).

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 =-
>
>
>