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Re: [Tools-discuss] Listing updating RFCs in RFCs

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Mon, 08 April 2024 14:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Listing updating RFCs in RFCs
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Tim,

> On Apr 8, 2024, at 7:07 AM, Tim Chown <Tim.Chown=40jisc.ac.uk@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was caught out this week looking at RFC 4861 as part of reviewing the draft on a new P bit for PIOs.
> 
> I missed the “updated by RFC 8425” on RFC 4861 as I was looking at the HTML rendered version of RFC 4861 at
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4861.html 
> rather than the datatracker version at
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4861/ 
> where you can see RFC 8425 (and RFC 9131) listed as updating RFCs which are missing on the HTML rendered version.  There was a clue I missed in that the 7th of 9 RFCs in the Updated by list had a comma after it, but no RFC.
> 
> The text and PDF versions don’t show any of the updating RFCs for RFC 4861.

The htmlized version:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4861

Does show the list of updated RFCs in the sidebar.

Bob

> 
> I’m wondering whether the updating RFCs should just be metadata to the RFCs, or be included fully in all RFCs in all versions.  It’s a little dangerous/confusing when you only see a partial list.  Or maybe I shouldn’t be looking at the HTML but rather the HTMLised version?
> 
> Tim
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