[dhcwg] Re: John Scudder's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc- addr-notification-12: (with COMMENT)
Jen Linkova <[email protected]> Thu, 16 May 2024 20:25:02 +1000
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On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM John Scudder via Datatracker <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for this very readable document. I have a few comments I hope may be > helpful. <skip> Thank you John, those comments are very helpful indeed and make the document more readable. I've just submitted -13 which contains the corresponding changes. > ### Acknowledgements > > I thought it was weird that the document both credits a previous document > ("borrows heavily”), listing the authors of that document, AND also adds the > authors of that document as front-page authors/contributors of the present > document. So, you are acknowledging... yourselves. ("Good job, me!" ;-) > > I mean, it's not a big deal, whatever. But given that the justification for six > authors is "because the previous document", isn't being listed on the front > page acknowledgment enough? On the other hand, if the goal is to retain the > information that draft-ietf-dhc-addr-registration is a predecessor document, > why not put that in the replaces/replaced-by metadata instead? It's arguably > both more visible and more useful that way. It *is* possible, I'm pretty sure, > to have multiple documents in the replaced-by. Good point! It looks like 'replaced-by' metadata can only be edited by the WG chairs. Bernie, Tim - could you please add 'draft-ietf-dhc-addr-registration' to 'replaces' metadata for draft-wkumari-dhc-addr-notification? Thank you! -- Cheers, Jen Linkova _______________________________________________ dhcwg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]