On Sep 21, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Pete Resnick <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Changing the subject and removing GenArt and the document authors/chairs] > > On 9/21/12 10:52 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: > >>>> -- The abstract should mention that this obsoletes 5721 >> >> Why? There is a statement in the header, 10 lines above the abstract, that >> says "Obsoletes: 5721 (if approved)". > > The IESG put this into the nits check before my time. The Last Call and > publication announcements normally contain only the abstract, not the > metadata above, and I believe the thinking was that if you are a person who > scans through those announcements, you probably would (and would want to) > take notice of documents that purport to obsolete or update document that you > recognize. We could probably change the tool to add the metadata to the > announcements, but apparently quite a few people read "abstracting" services > that grab the abstracts of newly published documents. Not much we can do for > them. > > It's certainly useful to some folks. Necessary? (*Shrug*) Not enough wasted > bits for me to care one way or the other. > As a Gen-ART reviewer, I called it out for exactly the reasons Pete mentions, and care about the same amount :-) But putting it there seems to hurt nothing, and maybe help just a little bit in some cases.
