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Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 09:47:22
Hi, Julian,

The first URL was broken since the IETF web site redesign, but nobody has noticed. That - to me - is a pretty strong indication that nobody has been using it. (It is now fixed.)

The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which are defunct in some way (don't respond, DNS name doesn't resolve, contains stale content, etc.) Again, nobody has been noticing this.

Consequently, the proposal is to shorten the boilerplate text above to the following, saving five lines:
...

Again: can we please stop making changes to things that aren't broken?

I'm not the guy who has to keep syncing the tools with boilerplate changes, so I'm not sure how much of a vote I should get, but my vote would be that taking up that much of the first page of every draft with information that is wrong, but that nobody even cares about enough to notice that it's wrong, actually is broken.

I would support accepting the old format until there's a GOOD reason to revise the toolset anyway, but that's a different question.

Thanks for all you do in support of the community. I used your tools to produce a draft revision yesterday, so I definitely appreciate you!

Spencer
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