Re: rfc4622bis: review requested

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> ...
>> (2) Independently of that, a diff to RFC4622 would be useful, such as in 
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/rfcdiff.pyht?url1=http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4622.txt&url2=http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-rfc4622bis-00.txt>.
> 
> Do I-Ds generally contain such references? I have not seen them (perhaps
> because they could be rather evanescent).

Nope. But it's useful to get people reviewing stuff. Mentioning the link 
over here is sufficient.

>> (3) 
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-rfc4622bis-00#section-3.8> 
>> says: "See Section 5 of RFC 4622, Security Considerations." There may be 
>> other instances like that.
> 
> My working copy has things like "See Section 5 of &rfc.number;" (where
> the &rfc.number; reference is to be replaced by the RFC Editor).

Ah, xml2rfc black magic, to be avoided. It's not XML.

As it's a some-document reference, why mention the document name at all?

>  ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:14:21 UTC