RE: References to work in progress

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

The idea is NOT to make IDs more permanent. The idea
is top make it easier for people to find them while they exist.
Why would this make them any more permanent then just listing 
the title?

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Narten [mailto:narten@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 26 september 2003 13:02
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Cc: Iesg (E-mail); Rfc-Editor (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: References to work in progress 
> 
> 
> > I was talking about the final RFC-publication.
> > Even there, people who read it may want a better handle
> > to find the papers (IDs) that are referenced.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. This would be a _big_ change though, as
> it would in effect make IDs more permanent. We've gone to great
> lengths over the years to say one should not reference IDs in general
> in permanent documents. If RFCs did that, we'd have a lot harder time
> pushing back on other groups that do that (including other SDOs...)
> 
> I'm not at all sure this would be a net benefit.
> 
> Thomas
>