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Re: [newtrk] IESG comments on ISD proposal

Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> Sun, 05 June 2005 15:37 UTC

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To: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@mcsr-labs.org>
Cc: "New Track" <newtrk@lists.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: [newtrk] IESG comments on ISD proposal
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From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:45:05 -0400
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Folks, no matter what happens to ISDs, I don't see that ISD references
would replace RFC references in other RFCs for the most part.

It is very common for one RFC to refer to section foo.bar of another
RFC.  You cannot do that with an ISD reference.  You might be able to
refer to an ISD if you are saying something really basic like
"implement SCTP," but not if you refer to any details.

I would certainly consider it a really bad idea if we got out of the
practice of making references to specific sections, especially if the
thing we refer to covers multiple RFCs.

--Sam
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