+1 I also support the idea of every RFC havving the associated wiki.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > > > >> Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an > associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors > to add comments, annotations, clarifications, corrections etc to augment the > RFCs. Whilst such commentary can often be found on IETF mailing lists after > an RFC is published locating those and searching them can be tedious - plus > the full history of discussion on various points is often not relevant to an > implementor - all they need to know is what is the correct way to do it now. > >> > >> Doing something like this would obviously require some investment in > additional infrastructure. There are also questions about how we would > maintain the integrity of the information on the wiki pages, but I think > those are things we can easily address. > > > > This is something that could be implemented on a volunteer basis as an > experiment. If it worked, perhaps IETF could be convinced to take it over. > > Volunteer moderating of such a Wiki could easily lead to the wiki being of > little or no value, and being an embarrassment to the IETF. Consider an RFC > that might be construed as supporting the use of NATs on the Internet. Open > commenting on the RFC could be fodder for certain people commenting about > the applicability of the RFC because NATs Are Evil. There would then likely > be counter-comments from people who feel that NATs Have Value. Such > comments, if moderated, could be very valuable to an implementer who knows > about the RFC but not the bigger picture; unmoderated comments would be no > more useful than some of the permathreads on the WG list that created the > RFC. > > Wikipedia is about the only example of working volunteer moderation, and > even then, there are cabals that supported by the paid management. Few, if > any, of the unmanaged wiki sites have long-lasting value. > > --Paul Hoffman > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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