Re: When can we provide stable references to other standards bodies

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 28, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

>
> I hear you but not sure I buy it. We already provide non-changing  
> pointers
> very early in the process. A draft name, draft-willis-sip- 
> answeralert-01, is
> a non changing pointer. If a 3g spec references a tel URL draft, no  
> one can
> finalize an implementation until the details of the TEL ABNF are  
> final.
>

draft-willis-sip-answeralert-0x hopefully will change to RFC XXXX  
eventually. Why should OMA have to re-issue some specification just  
because IETF administratively changed the name of the document?


> If what they need is a placeholder for the RFC when it is  
> finalized, then
> seems like the draft name should work. Feel free to whack me in the  
> head
> here and tell me why a changing document reference by a 4 digit  
> number is
> better than a draft name but it's not obvious to me.


Whack! Whack! Whack!

because they PROBABLY won't have to change RFC XXXX to RFC YYYY (only  
OCCASIONALLY will we kill an IESG approved document before  
publication or change it so dramatically that it immediately goes  
historical) but they ABSOLUTELY WILL HAVE TO change draft-fluffy- 
mondoidea-39 to RFC XXXX.

--
Dean