At 8:34 AM -0500 3/1/06, John C Klensin wrote:
So I read the description of this issue/ requirement, saw what "permanent IDs", especially early ones, were for, and got "these are identifiers of the _standards_, not identifiers of the documents".
Another way to say this is that we are required to have a naming system for documents, and are required to have a naming system for standards. Documents that are not standards will have a name only in the first, while documents that are standards will have a name in both.
From the Techspec perspective, there is not a requirement for how the naming system for standards is organized, nor when the names in the naming system for standards are allocated.
IESGers: do the external bodies who want permanent identifiers need all of the identifiers that will be associated with the document (the document naming system *and* the standards naming system), or just a document identifier?
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