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Re: [Rswg] The immutability shibboleth [was: draft-thomson-rswg-syntax-change call for adoption]

Scott Bradner <sob@sobco.com> Mon, 28 August 2023 14:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rswg] The immutability shibboleth [was: draft-thomson-rswg-syntax-change call for adoption]
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> On Aug 28, 2023, at 10:00 AM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
<snip>

>  If I
> want to write DNS software or SMTP software, nobody can even tell me
> what RFCs I need to read, much less what errata need to be applied. I
> would hope we could come up with A scheme where we can point to the
> most recent updated fixed version of a document.


many technologies such as DNS & SNMP are not defined in just one RFC - (even if one
includes errata) - they are defined by many RFCs so saying 1/ what documents need to be
implemented to implement a technology& 2/ what versions of those documents is what is actually
needed

we tried in NEWTRK - see draft-ietf-newtrk-repurposing-isd and (as an example) draft-ietf-newtrk-sample-isd

the IESG did not like it and told us to stop thinking this way

Scott

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