This morning I had reason to re-read parts of RFC3777, and anything
that updated it. I find the datatracker WG interface to really be
useful, and so I visited http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/
first. I guess I could have instead gone to:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3777
but frankly, I'm often bad with numbers, especially when they repeat...
(3777? 3737? 3733?)
While http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ lists RFC3777, and
in that line, it lists the things that update it, it doesn't actually list
the other documents. Thinking this was an error, I asked, and Cindy kindly
explained:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ lists the documents that were
published by the NOMCOM Working Group. The NOMCOM Working Group was
open from 2002-2004, and only produced one RFC, which is RFC 3777.
The RFCs that update 3777 were all produced by individuals (that is,
outside of the NOMCOM Working Group), and so aren't listed individually
on the NOMCOM Working Group documents page.
I wonder about this as a policy.
Seeing the titles of those documents would have helped me find what I wanted
quickly (RFC5680 it was)...
While I think that individual submissions that are not the result of
consensus do not belong on a WG page. But, if the document was the result of
consensus, but did not occur in a WG because the WG had closed, I think that
perhaps it should appear there anyway.
--
Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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