- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:20:22 -0700
- To: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com>, "DeltaV" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Geoff Clemm writes: > We actually inherited a bunch of references from RFC 2518 which > we did not repeat. I personally think that's OK. There is a fair amount of overlap between the references for the HTTP/1.1 specification (RFC 2616), and the HTTP Authentication specification (RFC 2617), even though they are intended to be consumed as a pair. I think the references should be repeated, or it should be noted that the reference can be found in reference section of RFC 2518. From the perspective of a first-time reader who starts reading the DeltaV specification first, and who has no knowledge of XML, they will be confused by the lack of a reference. While such a case may seem unlikely today, 15 or 20 years hence it may be more common. My recollection is that nroff, Wordstar, and SGML were the dominant markup languages in 1981... - Jim
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