On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:45:28AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 12/9/2014 8:36 AM, John Levine wrote:
That means nobody can cite a printed book, or an article from an ACM
or IEEE journal. (To the extent the latter two are online, they're
PDFs behind a paywall.)
This seems to me to be making rules for the sake of making rules, not
because there is a problem that needs to be solved.
Well, there is certainly a higher barrier to access for a paper document
or one behind a paywall than there is for something that is only one
click away.
Whoops, I wasn't clear! I meant that new RFCs must be available online
(obviously, old ones that can't be found online... might never be).
Further down in my post this became clear when I pointed out that we
can't require external docs to be available online. But it should have
been clear here.
Nico
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