[Ltru] Re: Modification of the Added field (Was: Small bibliography error in RFC 4930

"Doug Ewell" <dewell@roadrunner.com> Thu, 21 June 2007 15:58 UTC

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Subject: [Ltru] Re: Modification of the Added field (Was: Small bibliography error in RFC 4930
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:

> But, yesterday, the subtag baku1926 was modified (change in the Comments) 
> and the Added field *was* modified, from 2007-04-18 to 2007-04-20, which 
> puzzles me (why changing it and why for a date two months in the past?)
>
> IANA's blunder or ambiguity in the procedures/RFCs?

Apparently an error in the second record that was sent to IANA, the one with 
Resat's replacement transcription.  IANA perfectly reproduced the record 
they were sent.  We'll ask them to fix the mistake.

You can't get much less ambiguous than this:

> 3.4.  Stability of IANA Registry Entries
>
>  1.   Values in the fields 'Type', 'Subtag', 'Tag', 'Added',
>       'Deprecated' and 'Preferred-Value' MUST NOT be changed and are
>       guaranteed to be stable over time.

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