[regext] Re: draft-ietf-regext-ext-registry-epp-07 ietf last call Secdir review

[Ruth Trevor-Allen <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 30 May 2026 at 01:13, Tero Kivinen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Scott Hollenbeck writes:
> > > In addition of those two bigger issues, there are several cases
> > > where RFC numbers are used without any useful title or text
> > > describing which document they refer to. This makes it harder for
> > > the newcomers to read IETF documents, as to be able to read a document
> > > you first need to have the mapping from 10000 RFC numbers to the
> > > titles of those RFCs. To make documents easier to read for people
> > > who are not experts in that area (i.e., who do not have the RFC
> > > number mappings memorized), add short title before referencing
> > > an RFC. The RFC number can still stay in the actual reference
> > > link.
> > >
> > > Below is the list of such cases in this document, and proposed text
> > > to correct those:
> >
> > [SAH] I'm going to defer to Med for this one, too. In my experience
> > the RFC Editor commonly accepts citations as currently found in the
> > draft.
>
> RFC Editor do accept citations in that format, but that does not mean
> it is good idea to have citations in that format. When we only had
> 1500 or so RFCs published when I started participating in the IETF, it
> was mostly manageable to learn mapping from each RFC number to the
> actual contents, especially for your own area.
>
> Now when we have 10000 of those, at least my capability is not large
> enough to be able to map them in my head, and adding few words while
> writing the document (i.e., some kind of title) makes reading the
> document much easier. The title does not have to match exactly to the
> RFC title, but it should be something that gives reader good
> understanding what that RFC is about.
>
> I do hope even this document will have more readers than writers, so
> overall time saving will be there...
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>

Hi both,

For what it's worth, as a comparative newcomer to the community, I
find Tero's suggested wording much easier to process - I do spend a
certain amount of time flipping about following references in order to
remind myself which number maps to which concept.

Ruth