Thanks for reviving this. (Although it seems to be another case that shows the
pointlessness of the 6-month expiry rule, but that's an IETF process issue.)
Looking at it again, I reached three conclusions:
1. Adding the "Extends" tag is a very good idea.
2. Adding the "See Also" tag is a moderately good idea. I'm not sure how much
use it would get.
3. I really don't see any advantage of changing "Updates" to "Amends". There
are many shades of meaning here that we might want to convey, such as Correct, Improve, Clarify. I
don't think Amend is more precise than Update.
Finally, while I think that this *is* RSWG business, it certainly needs consent
from the streams.
Regards/Ngā mihi
Brian Carpenter
On 04-Jul-26 01:23, [email protected] wrote:
Internet-Draft draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag-03.txt is now available.
Title: Definition of new tags for relations between RFCs
Authors: Mirja Kuehlewind
Suresh Krishnan
Name: draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag-03.txt
Pages: 9
Dates: 2026-07-03
Abstract:
An RFC can include a tag called "Updates" which can be used to link a
new RFC to an existing RFC. On publication of such an RFC, the
existing RFC will include an additional metadata tag called "Updated
by" which provides a link to the new RFC. However, this tag pair is
not well-defined and therefore it is currently used for multiple
different purposes, which leads to confusion about the actual meaning
of this tag and inconsistency in its use.
This document recommends the discontinuation of the use of the
updates/updated by tag pair, and instead proposes three new tag pairs
that have well-defined meanings and use cases.
The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag/
There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag-03.html
A diff from the previous version is available at:
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag-03
Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
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