Re: [rfc-i] archiving outlinks in RFCs

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 04-May-23 13:24, Alexis Rossi wrote:
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>>>> Goal #2: Allow RPC to fix broken links in a version of published RFCs with appropriate approval.
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>>>> - When the RPC receives notification of a broken link, they can identify a suggested replacement, obtain approval from the appropriate entity, and update an html version of the RFC with the approved link.
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>>>> - Approval of replacement links for a document is provided by the same entities who approve errata for the document.
>>> Goal #2 would be a policy decision, and thus brought to the RSWG after Goal #1 is implemented. In specific, replacing any text in any format of an RFC is certainly a policy change from what we have now.
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>> In case it wasn't obvious, that was an advantage of the proposal to treat broken URLs as errata - there is already established policy.
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>> A sub-question is whether we treat http: URLs as broken if they have been replaced by https:. There will likely be many of those.
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>>    Brian
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> I do see the advantage of the errata system, as it provides tooling and approval procedures that are already in place. However, I don’t think broken links are errata, per se, and it sounds like the current system is going to be replaced. I don’t have a particular opinion yet about implementation - does the goal itself seem correct? Regardless of what we do to implement it?

Yes, I think the goal is correct, and I'm not at all sure there's really a policy change here as long as the rendering of the RFC with fixed links is clearly labelled as such. While these are not errata that could in theory have been identified at the time of publication, their practical impact is exactly the same: something in the original rendered text is wrong, and here is a fixed version. I absolutely do not care whether we call broken links "errata" or "fracturae" because I think the mechanism, including approvals, can be exactly the same.

(That was carefully worded to keep it distinct from the "Modifying the XML" topic.)

    Brian