Re: [Tools-discuss] Change in datatracker behavior

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Thanks for looking.

What I used to get was the datatracker page for the I-D that bare information
and a pointer to the tools version of the I-D.
The datatracker page usefully included the "replaces" information that allowed
you to track back further into history.

It used to be that the History tab of the RFC was fairly boring, but the History
tab of the I-D gave the progress of the I-D. This seems to now be in the History
of the RFC (I think).

I also see that (and this is odd) when I click on the IPR link on the RFC page I
get a search on the I-D name not on the RFC name.  I don't suppose this matters
as the output is probably the same, but it looks odd.
E.g. From http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6372/ click "IPR Disclosures" and
go to
http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&id=draft-ietf-mpl
s-tp-survive-fwk

I'm not currently blocked from getting the info I need (being a resourceful
rodent), but it is all a bit odd.

A


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Barry
> Leiba
> Sent: 24 July 2013 21:28
> To: Henrik Levkowetz
> Cc: Adrian Farrel; IESG; Tools Team Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Change in datatracker behavior
> 
> > I just looked a little bit at this, and it might actually be correct, as
> > the RFC is considered just another instance of the document which started
> > out as draft-..., as you'll see if you look at the history tab.
> >
> > What did you expect; what were you looking for on the draft page?
> 
> I'm not certain, but I'm *pretty sure* this didn't used to work that
> way -- that we used to be able to see the page for last version of the
> draft.
> 
> That said, the main problems are these:
> 
> - The tools version lets one look at each version of the document
> explicitly, but the datatracker doesn't.  This isn't a change, of
> course.
> 
> - When the document was draft-ietf-mpls-fastreroute-mib-21, the
> history tab let us look at diffs between any pair of versions, 00 thru
> 21.  Now that it's RFC 6445, the history tab no longer allows any
> diffs at all.  I'm pretty sure this is a change.  In any case, it's
> unfortunate.
> 
> The workaround is, of course, to use the tools version.
> 
> Barry