On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:18:19PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> I'm against fractional version numbers on the grounds that it's
> another piece of knowledge that must be held before someone can
> understand the system (think of 5.004_54 and how hideous that system
> was). Integers imply all changes are equal. I like that, and I'm not
> sure that microupdates warrant this new level of complexity.
I want to assert to the reader that there have been no substantive
changes since v3 if an RFC was frozen at v3, but is currently v5.
A "Frozen Since: v3" attribute should make this apparent.
> My feeling: if the maintainer is:
> * fixing typos
> * adding References
> then they should be allowed to update the frozen RFC, incrementing
> the version number and describing the change in the Changes section.
That works, and keeps the spirit of "frozen".
Z.
