At 8:40 PM -0800 11/8/04, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
No public standards body I am aware of isn't guilty of this today. The IETF (which Atom will be published under) has a particularly nasty habit of not even bothering to update specs at all which is a LOT WORSE than updating them without revving the spec.
Your generalization is cute, but wrong. Some specs get ignored, but NNTP is not one of them. NNTP community has been working for years on a revision. The fact that they haven't finished is a comment on the NNTP community, not on the IETF, which keeps prodding them to finish.
To the best of my knowledge, no one from your employer is participating, or even following the Working Group, even though you are a major user of the spec.
How to deal with errata to specs is a problem that no one has really figured out how to solve yet. Remove the log from your own eye and all that...
Wrong. RFCs have errata collected in a single place. See <http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html>, which is linked from the RFC Editor's home page.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
