Re: [rfc-i] archiving outlinks in RFCs

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On 3 May 2023, at 17:40, 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.
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>> 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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>> --Paul Hoffman
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> We already have a version of the RFC that includes inline errata (ie it has text that is not contained in the original RFC). I don’t see how something like indicating that a link is broken and pointing to a new one is materially different from that?

I was not aware that there is "a version of the RFC that includes inline errata". Are the rules for when that is and is not done published somewhere?
They are not in the style guide (that I can find), and I see HTMLs of recent RFCs that have verified errata where that has not been done.

RFC 7992 certainly did not cover changing the HTML output for errata.

--Paul Hoffman