[Sedate] Antw: Re: [art] Antw: [EXT] Re: [Ntp] [Cbor] Two specifications on timestamps nearing WGLC

[Ulrich Windl <[e-mail]>]

>>> Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> schrieb am 20.10.2022 um 15:29 in Nachricht
<[e-mail]>:
> On 20. Oct 2022, at 08:42, Ulrich Windl <[e-mail]>

> wrote:
>> 
>>> On the other hand, 3339 contains references to ISO 8601:1988
>>> and, for that matter, ISO 8601:2000 and at least the former is
>>> rather close to normative.  So, give the availability (or last
>> 
>> You won't like this type of comment, but isn't a reference to a standard, 
> that is not available anymore, equivalent to referring to no standard?
>> I did not inspect ISO standards, but for any evolving standard I'd expect 
> that the previous versions should be derivable from the current one; 
> otherwise it's just nonsense.
> 
> I’m not sure I understand what exactly you are expecting here, but we should

> not discuss this in generalities, but for the specific standard that we want

> to maintain.

What I wanted to express is: It seems old versions of the standard just seemed
to have vanished, and only newer versions are available.
So when referring to an old version that practically does not exist any more
(i.e. is not readable), any reference to such version is void.

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Regards,
Ulrich Windl

> Grüße, Carsten