On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Tero Kivinen wrote:
8221 states properly: Obsoletes: 7321This is in the RFC text itself and this is the proper place to indicate that this obsoleted something.but 7321 is missing: Obsoleted by: 8221The actual RFC7321 cannot include text that it will be obseleted as when it was published that was not known, and RFCs are not modified after they are published.
I was not talking about the RFC text, but about the navigational support of the datatracker based renderings of our RFCs.
The metadata header in the tools.ietf.org (the grey background block in the beginning) can inclulde this information, but as tools.ietf.org pages are not generated using the same database than what is used by the datatracker, they can use old cached information that is not up to date.
Most likely someone can, but there is nothing I can do for this, as fixing this most likely would require cleaning the cached entry for the rfc7321 from the tools site, and regenerate html version after all other cached information has already been updated. Most likely this will get fixed by itself after few weeks or months or so when the old cached data is replaced with new data.
That is not my experience. I have seen this for drafts going back years and they only get fixed when I point it out directly to the tools person or sometimes when I poke this list.
Proper place to complain these things might be the tools-disc...@ietf.org mailing list, but it is always better to check things in the datatracker.ietf.org first and see if this is tools.ietf.org related problem or whether there is real problem with the source data...
It would be good if someone could scrape the entire repository and check it for consistency. I'm pretty sure these artifacts are very common, and that bugs are still present. And it is more then esthetic. People assume the pages don't lie about what is a latest version or that a document is really not obsoleted by a new document when it doesn't say so. If anyone has no Christmas project, this could be a nice time killer :) Paul _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
