On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Yaron Sheffer
<yaronf(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Once an RFC is published, there is essentially no way for readers to provide
feedback: what works, what are the implementation pitfalls, how does the
document relate to other technologies or even to other RFCs.
We IETF insiders usually know what is the relevant working group, and can
take our feedback there. Non-insiders though don't have any contact point,
and so will most likely keep their feedback to themselves. These non-IETFers
are the target audience of our documents! Unfortunately, our so-called
"Requests for Comments" are anything but an invitation to submit comments.
There is a number of tools now that allow "web annotations" (i.e., comments)
on various published documents. I submitted a draft [1] recently that
proposes to enable annotations on the "tools" version of our RFCs.
Technically, this is a trivial change. From a process point of view it is
more complicated and merits discussion on this list. Sec. 6 of the draft
allows you to see for yourself what such annotations would look like.
I am here in Berlin if people prefer to talk it over in person. Otherwise,
please reply on this list.
I think that's an interesting and very good idea. I googled one of my
RFCs a while back related to work I was doing and found anecdotes on
other sites that included feedback. I would not have seen it and the
WG would not have either had I I/they not looked for it.
We would need to display and ack the notewell prior to posts so the
non-ietf users understand our policies.
Kathleen
Thanks,
Yaron
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheffer-ietf-rfc-annotations-00
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Best regards,
Kathleen