- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:11:03 -0400
- To: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
- CC: Debbie Garside <debbie@ictmarketing.co.uk>, ietf@ietf.org, discuss@apps.ietf.org, 'Iljitsch van Beijnum' <iljitsch@muada.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, bmanning@ISI.EDU, saag@mit.edu, ietf-http-auth@osafoundation.org
>> There has been a discussion recently on LTRU as to whether a Terms and >> Definitions section should be introduced within RFCs - much like those >> within ISO Standards. >> > > And my response to this suggestion is the same as it was for the "IANA > considerations" or "Internationalization considerations" section suggestions: > By all means have a "terms and definitions" section or whatever in the document > if there's a need for one, but don't make having one mandatory in all > documents. > > We already have more than enough useless (from a technical content > perspective) boilerplate in our documents. +1 Actually I don't have so much of a problem with having such sections in drafts at review time, but I hate to see them clutter up published RFCs. There are a lot of times when these sections aren't applicable, and having them in the final document just interferes with readability. I also think that a Terms and Definitions section might encourage document authors to make up new terms when they're not necessary, which would also interfere with readability. (geeks love to create new language.)
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