Re: [tao-discuss] [Gendispatch] Requests for IETF 114

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

On 11-Jun-22 01:33, Salz, Rich wrote:
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>>     IMHO, we here are presumed to understand Internet infrastructure jargon, but not HCI jargon.
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> But we are discussing HCI, in particular User Experience. And it someone uses an unfamiliar term (Greg Wood first talked about shorter content to user journeys, IIRC) then it behooves folks to ask for clarification, web-search, or whatever. I don't walk into a DNS WG and ask people to explain the difference between a recursive and an authoritative resolver.  Whatever.  I still think your use of "scare quotes" around the word was wrong, but I accept that you meant nothing insulting by it. Sorry to harp on it, but I think understanding that this is about the user experience primarily for a newcomer, and not a reference document on what bits go where, is important.
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>>     I can't begin to express my annoyance at the prevalence of dynamic and often rearranged web content that makes URL bookmarking close to pointless. (To be clear, I'm speaking in general, not about the IETF site, which has done a good job in general at preserving URLs.) So, a stable URL, not forever but for many years. However, the *content* of informational pages obviously needs to be actively curated.
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> Would you be happy if the page included time-based URL's that jumped directly to the appropriate part of an introductory video?

Not at all, as long as there is also text. I think there are good accessibility arguments for always having text - videos are not useful to everyone.
  
>>     Suppose my fictional /tao page included:
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> It seems reasonable to me, but I'm not going to get involved in designing any part of the IETF website as I prefer to leave that to experts.

Sure, but those experts need to have a two-way relationship with the community.

    Brian