Russ Housley wrote:
Brian:
There was no announcement that this change was about to be deployed;
however, there was a long discussion of the change. It started with
a request for the HTML version of the I-D instead of the plain
text version. At the end of the discussion the decision was to use
the Datatracker URL as it allows anyone to get the plaintext or a
diff with just one more click.
I recall a different outcome, because this reasoning looks flawed to me.
Tools that process the announce-Emails automatically
will be unable to "perform another mouse-click" in order to
get to a page where there is an URL to the TXT document,
so that option does not exist.
Those who use a graphical frontend that is sensitive to follow
URLs on mouse-click, will probably prefer the HTML variant
over the TXT variant.
The two changes that I would appreciate:
Put the direct TXT URL back into the announcement.
Fix the new URL to the HTML version in the announcment.
-Martin