I liked the suggestion from Chris Hopps:
I think that it was along the lines of ...
The RFC contains a reference at the top that states that updates to the
guidelines is available on a wiki at ....
Every few years the guidelines on the wiki can be folded into a latest
version of the guidelines draft.
6087bis looks to be 3.5 years old. Should folks, e.g. at BBF,, IEEE, or
MEF be using the latest draft guidelines, or should then use the
published RFC until 6087bis is actually republshed?
Thanks,
Rob
On 15/11/2017 10:14, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
Hi,
There was a proposal in the meeting today to have the guidelines for
tree diagrams in a wiki, instead of having them in 6087bis or in the
tree diagram document.
Was the proposal really to have a wiki for just the tree guidelines,
or was the proposal to withdraw 6087bis from the process and instead
publish all guidelines as a wiki?
If it is the former, is it really worth it?
Advantages with a wiki:
+ It can be updated more easily
Some drawbacks:
- It can be updated more easily
(meaning they are less stable)
- Wikis tend to not be alive after some time, and are not that
easy to find. Just try to find the various YANG-related wikis
we've tried to maintain over the years.
- Links in RFCs also have problems. Sites are re-orginized etc.
As an example, the link to the security guidelines template in
RFC 6087 doesn't work anymore.
- People that are looking for a stable reference will have problems
(I think Rob mentioned that IEEE still refer to RFC 6087 (which
is understandable; that's the published version).
- Who maintains the Wiki, and what are the rules for updating it?
I suggest we have the tree-related guidelines (actually just a few
sentences) in the tree draft, and since 6087bis already refers to this
document it is not a big problem that guidelines are spread out over
several documents that are difficult to find.
/martin
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