Re: [Fwd: CAP-12 - interm version 'A']

FWIW, I've always published such diffs -- preferably high level 
explanations, alternately actual diffs -- whenever I've authored such a 
document.  -- N

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 07:37  PM, Mark Smith wrote:

>
> Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
>>
>> What Mark did simply proved that it is possible to do what Bruce had
>> asked for.  It is silly for more than one person to have to do this,
>> and I always understood this to be a part of the job of the document
>> editor.
>
> When I read a draft after reading some previous version of the draft
> I do a diff. I do not know of any other IETF list that has produced
> diffs of draft versions. I also can not find a list of differences
> for versions of any draft except the ones that Doug used to publish.
> Check for yourself. I could not find any.
>
> The process seems to be that there is debate then at random times a
> new version shows up. I have looked in several IETF lists and web pages
> and I think you have been misled by someone on this list that is making
> more false statements or is just trying to disrupt this list. It does
> not
> seem to be normal process.
>
> There also seems to be a lack of chair participation on this list.
> It is very hard to find any consensus called even when there is a
> overwhelming agreement.
>
>> BTW the whole problem can be simplified a bit if the editor uses a 
>> tool
>> like xml2rfc and produces diffs using the relevant component files...
>
> If you noticed he also published the XML source on calsch.org and
> his web site. And again I could not find any XML diffs published.
> Do you know of any?
>
> Mark
>