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Re: Getting the latest version of an RFC specification

2017-03-29 17:04:24
Yeah, like instead of redirecting to the next stop, present a page with a list 
of the obsoleting RFCs (name + title) and a link to each, like:

RFC 2616 is obsoleted by the following RFCs:
   o RFC 7230 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230/latest> - Hypertext Transfer 
Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
   o RFC 7231 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231/latest> - Hypertext Transfer 
Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content

and so on….

On 29 Mar 2017, at 16:44, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:

On 3/29/2017 4:40 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
But there are examples that are properly tagged.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 is obsoleted by a series of six RFCs.

So to attempt a more serious suggestion -- remembering that the whole idea 
here was KISS:  If the Obsoleted-By field contains multiple pointers, then 
present this fact to the user and request that the select one.

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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