On 01/06/2012 00:50, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Thank you for that most colorful analogy. :-) What I proposed is exactly > what we are doing now, except that the changes would appear on the web > page instead of an Internet-Draft and, five years later, an RFC. Are you > saying that the current system (which you have not commented on until > now) is sclerotic (a word that I have wanted to use since I learned it > in high school)?
It depends on what you're trying to do. For prescriptive documents which aren't expected to change much, the I-D system works well. But as it's been suggested that this document falls into a category which is expected to change from time to time, wikis offer a lot more flexibility. Wikipedia editing and document management policy suggests that you can end up with quality material. It's a bit of a departure from the I-D system, but its lack of formality is quite appealing for documents which are not formally prescriptive. Nick
