Re: [mpowr] Why MPOWR?

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> There are even some drafts in the queue with no prospects for
> publication, since they have normative dependencies on drafts that were
> abandoned long ago and will never be completed (one of the MIDCOM
> documents is an example of this).

Note that the references in the midcom draft in question have been
corrected and the revised document is in the RFC editor's hands.  The
problem in this particular case is that because we don't have a way
of flagging documents as being dependencies there's no way to know
who to notify when work on a document is stopped or the document is
dropped completely.  This isn't an mpowr problem but rather a
tools problem.  It would be useful to tag unpublished documents that
are cited in somebody else's normative references so that when the
documents change status notifications can be propagated.  We're nowhere
near being able to put that kind of capability in the hands of
document editors, which is where it seems to me to belong.

Melinda


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