On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:29 AM, t.p. wrote:
When I Google RFCnnnn, I am sometimes directed to www.ietf.org, which is
not much help here. Other times, I am directed to tools.ietf.org, whose
format I find less friendly but which does have 'errata exist' in the
top right hand corner. However, I cannot click on that,
No, but two lines above it, there's an "Errata" link, which you can click.
unlike the
Obsoletes and Updates fields; but, more importantly, would your average
not-involved-in-standards audience know what errata are? For me, the
word comes from a classical education, before ever I got involved with
standards, and so is a commonplace, but is it used in the world at
large? I suspect not.
Probably not, and neither is "bis". But what can you do about this? It's
either allow updating of RFCs after publication, or have a list or corrections.
Would it make it easier to find if they were called "notes" or "corrections"
instead of "errata"?
Yoav