Julian Reschke wrote:
I was recently pointed at:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226#section-4.2>:
All such URLs,
however, will be removed from the RFC prior to final
publication.
I have to say that I think that this is very very wrong.
It might be worse than that, actually.
When RFC-5746 was recently published, the URL from an extremely useful
informative reference apparently got stripped by the RFC Editor:
draft -03:
[Ray09] Ray, M., "Authentication Gap in TLS Renegotiation",
November 2009, <http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8>.
[SSLv3] Freier, A., Karlton, P., and P. Kocher, "The SSL Protocol
Version 3.0", November 1996, <http://www.mozilla.org/
projects/security/pki/nss/ssl/draft302.txt>.
RFC-5746:
[Ray09] Ray, M., "Authentication Gap in TLS Renegotiation",
November 2009, <http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8>.
[SSLv3] Freier, A., Karlton, P., and P. Kocher, "The SSL Protocol
Version 3.0", Work in Progress, November 1996.
But not only the URL was stripped, also the reference was changed
to a "Work in Progress" -- because that document happens to be
still formatted as a long expired I-D (both, the original authors
and TLS WG forgot to ask for publication as an information RFC).
Curiously, I did complain that the I-D marking and expiration was
never removed from this document, pointing out that some folks may
not believe that this is not the real/final SSLv3 spec -- and was
assured by several others that this would not happen.
Looks like it happened to the RFC Editor... :-(
-Martin
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