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Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-02.txt> (Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web Page) to Informational RFC

2012-07-05 23:29:55
Authoritative, no. But definitely referenced by many, many people and IMO worthy of a certain amount of care.

    Tony Hansen

On 7/5/2012 11:57 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Thursday, July 05, 2012 23:22 -0400 Tony Hansen
<tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com> wrote:

I think my point was missed. Section 2 says:

All published versions will be archived using URLs of the form
<http://www.ietf.org/tao-YYYYMMDD.html>.

My question is: Where is there a list of all of the tao
version files? How would one be able to find out the name of
the previous version so they could do a diff and see what has
changed? How can I see a history of the files?
...
Tony,

Mostly out of curiosity, why do you think it is important.   If
the Tao were a reference document that was authoritative on IETF
procedures or the like, it would be a different matter: I can
think of many reasons why it might be important to establish
exactly what the rules and procedures were at any given time.
But, given that it is a non-authoritative tutorial summary
description of how we do things, I have a certain amount of
trouble understanding why going to extra effort to maintain a
long-term back trace is actually important.

What am I missing?

     john