On 9/17/11 10:29 , Keith Moore wrote:
On Sep 17, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
On 9/16/11 12:22 , Keith Moore wrote:
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote:
I don't see these ass "Wikis" but basically "blog style" flat
display of user comments, which I often do find useful,
especially for the user ("this way") upon user ("not always")
follow ups.
A Wiki is more where you can change the main content and
perhaps even the context. I don't think that is a good idea
for RFCs.
I'm thinking in terms of a hybrid Wiki where the RFC content is
static but the discussion is maintainable as a Wiki and can be
visually associated with the RFC content. You'd also want the
RFC content to be clearly distinguished from the discussion.
One of the assumptions here is that discussion without editorial
discretion can add color to static informaion. While the case for
that can certainly be made, we have abundant evidence of it not
doing so in the context of ietf mailing lists.
we have abundant evidence of there being color added in the context
of ietf mailing lists. problem is, there's a lot more than color
added there.
a wiki is a different medium than email. because people can alter
and even delete contributions by others, there's some tendency to try
to compromise in order to minimize change wars. admittedly, it's an
imperfect tendency.
the frequency with which an opinion is stated by a small but prolific
number of individuals should not confer legitimacy over less frequent
contributors.
RFC's (WG documents in general) are the editorial filter through
which we pass/preserve the contributed discussion that is deemed
informative.
this is not true of WG documents in general, which are often quite
biased and occasionally one-sided.
I did not say that they were unbiased, I said that they served as filter
on the output.
as for RFCs, there's a lot of overhead associated with them, which is
part of why IETF has a difficult time keeping its documents current.
Keith
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