On 1/27/14, 12:20 PM, "Dave Crocker" <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:
5. Expecting an average IETF engineer to consult 4 different
BCPs, in order to understand what is required of them is not reasonable.
Nor is all each document relevant. So, in effect, the references are
overly broad, as well as too complicated. (See point 6.)
<snip>
3. We need all of the IPR rules for IETF participation to be in a
single, simple, clear document that is easily understandable by an
average engineer. (See point 1.)
Why should IETF engineers get special treatment over anyone trying to
implement an IETF standard? This is a much larger problem that exists for
many of IETF’s documents that have been partially updated by subsequent
documents rather than completely replaced/obsoleted by a BIS version.
Trying to follow the updates/replaces chain on some sets of documents to
figure out what you’re actually supposed to implement can be quite
frustrating. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a modular document management
system that was capable of using metadata to take an original document,
the identified set of changes from one or more subsequent “updating”
documents, and synthesizing a new document that has all of the info in one
place?
Seems a worthwhile problem to try to solve, especially as the series ages.
I bet we could do it even if we had to keep the existing LPR-friendly
all-text format. ;-)
Wes George
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