Re: [Tools-discuss] suggestion for id-draft diff tool

on 2005-08-04 17:42 Pekka Savola said the following:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Tony Hansen wrote:
>> One way to accomplish this would be to let the author or WG chair
>> indicate the relationship between a document and an earlier document
>> with a different name. For example, the I-D submission tool could let
>> such a field be filled in whenever a -00 document is submitted. Links
>> between older documents could be added through a link on the wg draft
>> tool page.
> 
> Actually, you can even tell the secretariat which drafts obsolete the 
> others, and this info is available from the tracker (look for e.g., 
> draft-ietf-v6ops-security-overview).

Yes, where the tracker has this information, I also have it available
as a list of drafts which are replaced by other drafts.  I'll add code
to look for this to the draft pages.  Good idea.

Already today, when a -00 document is submitted, it is possible to tell
the secretariat that it replaces an earlier document, and that information
will be recorded.  However, not all authors or chairs know that this is
possible, and thus don't use it.

For the I-D submission tool, it is a good idea to have a "replaces" field
for -00 documents, and that is actually already part of the requirements.

	Henrik

Re: [Tools-discuss] suggestion for id-draft diff tool

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