Re: comments on requirements-05

[Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 02:30 Canada/Eastern, Iljitsch van 
Beijnum wrote:

> On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 01:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > >    [7]  Huston, G., "Analyzing the Internet's BGP Routing Table",
> > >         January 2001.
> > > ==> especially for a *normative reference*, the reference should IMO 
> > > be much
> > > more explicit (e.g. refer to a publication and give a URL or the 
> > > like).
> > I will find an URL.
> Seems all of this is suffering from "broken-URL-itis". You can 
> probably find something resembling the original in Cisco's Internet 
> Protocol Journal, but it has since become an RFC unless I'm very much 
> mistaken: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3221.txt
Thanks.

> > > ==> "backhoe-fade" ?  No idea what that means, and couldn't find it
> > > in a dictionary either.
> > http://www.net.oregonstate.edu/netvideo/dugout.html
> So are you going to include the URL in the text or what???
>
> Remember that RFCs are published by an international standards 
> organization. As such, the text should be clear also for people who 
> have English as their second or third language and are unfamiliar with 
> American colloquialisms.
Yep, good point. I think I am blaming Vijay or Ben for that phrase 
anyway :-) I will find something more straightforward.


Joe