note that the amendments can still be useful in their own right, for
people who are very familiar with the current spec - those people want
to know the diffs from the previous version.
Surely the technology can deal with that? Way back in the 1970s IBM
used to use "change bars" on the right hand side to mark changed text in
its printed reference manuals. I still do this in the Exim manual, but I
haven't seen it commonly elsewhere. It's easy for text processors to do,
and it's visually very easy to spot when flicking through a text, either
on paper or on a screen. And it's easy to remove afterwards.
change bars are useful, but they only show you the new text - not
the text it replaces.
my point was that I think we'd be more productive if we discussed
and reviewed specific text changes instead of discussing and
reviewing the entire document with some less clear set of changes.