Commenting only on the idnits specific issue here:
On 2005-07-07 22:08 Bruce Lilly said the following:
On Thu July 7 2005 15:32, Ned Freed wrote:
[...]
Which would presumably mean that the idnits
check against that requirement would be dropped,
On the contrary, it is important that automated tools warn that such sections
are missing. This warning should not prevent a document from being last
called,
however.
idnits generates a warning because there is a requirement for such a
section. I don't think it is reasonable to expect that an automated
tool will be able to determine whether or not IANA actions would be
required; it is easy to determine whether or not a section is
present.
Right.
If the unconditional requirement for a section goes away,
I would expect the test to go away, or to at least require some
non-default option to be specified to enable it. Otherwise it will
appear when there are in fact no IANA actions and then it will be
treated as noise, like the fabled boy who cried "wolf".
Yes. When http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html changes, idnits is
updated to match. Otherwise, the tool would swiftly become useless.
Henrik
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