Oh, yeah. I agree completely - whatever we do with a URL, it should be in addition to relatively-normal-looking reference description (Author, Title, Date, published-in, ISBN numbers, etc.). The URL should be a shortcut, not a replacement.
Bare URLs are MAYBE ok in "did you see this morning's Dilbert" e-mail. Anything else is just gross!
Spencer
-----Original Message-----
From: David Mitton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 10:33 AM
To: Dawkins, Spencer [RICH1:2011-I:EXCH]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What to do with URLs in IETF docs? (was: RE: Citation bug
in RFC 2425)
I ran into a "naked" URL as a reference in someone's draft recently, and I
don't like it at all. I would like to insist that all references to
include an Author, Title, and Date as minimum, then some information about
the publication details which could include a URL. A dead URL with no info
on what it was, or how to maybe track down an equivalent copy is totally
useless.
Dave.
