On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 7:54 AM Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Mirja Kuehlewind \(IETF\) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Agreed!
> I think that it would be brilliant if an AD review told the WG:
>   "Yeah, that document is not an Updates-123, it's an Updates-545, right?"
>
> WG: Oh yeah, we didn't change our meta-data as our I-D evolved into being
>     better at interoperating with old thing FOO.
>

This seems like the optimistic view. The pessimistic view is that it will
usher
in a whole new round of arguments about whether it should be Updates-123 or
Updates-545.


>
>     > Also my question is what’s the harm I trying it. If it doesn’t help,
> we
>     > stop it again. However, I think there is a chance to at least improve
>     > the situation even though we might not fix all issues entirely.
>
> +1
>

In addition to the concern above, namely creating new arguments about
which tag applies, if it turns out not to work, we end up with a bunch of
confusing and no-longer-used tags in perpetuity.

-Ekr
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