Re: [Tools-discuss] another case of links not updating

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 6 May 2020, Robert Sparks wrote:

>>  references on my own drafts. It is really unclear how many references I
>>  miss on other people's drafts when I don't know they exist because the
>>  tracker might not show me.

> Again, just to be very clear, I think what you mean by that last sentence is 
> that when you think there's a new draft, you go to tools.ietf.org and are 
> frustrated occasionally because the redirect handler for the name without a 
> draft there doesn't redirect to what should be the current version. That is, 
> by 'tracker' you mean the pages on tools.ietf.org.

Yes. What really happens is I go to google, type in
"draft-pwouters-powerbind", which gets me the tools.ietf.org page. I
click it, then I might be on 02 where it also says 03 because of google
caching or more links having been made to -02 to get better page
ranking, then when I am on -03, which appears as the latest, I manually
change the url to +1 and see if i get file not found. then I know -03
is really the latest.

> The datatracker doesn't have this problem.

I don't like the datatracker page as much, because it's kind of awkward
to click on the tiny html button to get the html version, which is the
tools page. Also, sometimes when googling for the draft gives me too
many wrong hits, I add the word "tools" to the search to get me the
tools.ietf.org version.

Paul