--On Wednesday, June 18, 2025 14:58 -0700 Larry Masinter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every RFC can have multiple editions. Every edition is immutable. > When you access an RFC you can ask for the original edition or the > latest one, > Yes,, RFCs can retain the property of being immutable, but adding > another edition isn't a mutation. > -- Larry, as soon as the way of thinking about these issues (and others) slides into multiple editions, we'd better figure out how to put an edition number into the body of every RFC (or maybe every one but the first edition) and providing an edition date as well as the initial publication date there too. Of course, all of that would have to be propagated into supplemental metadata. I think we've decided to not go down that path several times, starting with the original motivation for FYI, BCP, and STD numbers. I think the latter has been a failure, which is part of what NEWTRK's "ISD" proposal was about, but that is a different topic. john _______________________________________________ rfc-interest mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
