See inline.

> On 7. Jul 2026, at 22:16, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> See inline.
>> 
>>> On 7. Jul 2026, at 20:19, Eric Rescorla <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> The discussion on which tag applies would be at least based on something 
>>>> written and consensus based and not just on differing strong opinions 
>>>> about how to do it right. That should make the discussion easier and also 
>>>> create less of them. That’s the goal! Maybe it wouldn’t avoid it entirely 
>>>> but I don’t think that a good reason to not do it as I don’t think there 
>>>> is a perfect solution (and probably there don’t need to be one; sometimes 
>>>> you simply need to have a discussion and make a decision).
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry, I don't agree. My view is that adding more tags with detailed 
>>> guidelines is just as likely to create more debate, not less. If we are to 
>>> do something here, I would instead replace both Obsoletes and Updates with 
>>> some variant of "look over here" or "you might be interested in", thus 
>>> avoiding any debate.
>> 
>> That’s why we also added the “see also” tag.
> 
> And if you were proposing just to replace Updates with "see also" I would 
> feel differently.

Not sure this proposal came up so far. Mostly people were rather arguing that 
"see also" is not needed as third tag (see issue #15 
https://github.com/mirjak/draft-kuehlewind-updates-tag/issues/15). I wonder how 
others feel about this…?
> 
>  
>> Why do you think that “amends” and “extends” are not clear?
> 
> It's not a matter of whether I think they are clear. It's a matter of whether 
> I think it's a good idea to try to draw these distinctions.

I was asking this because you said you assume these tags would create more 
discussion. So I was assuming you think the definitions were not clear. Or why 
do you assume more discussion?

> 
> -Ekr
> 

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