Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 3:52 PM -0600 2/6/06, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > > Given that we won't have consistency across all time, I don't know > > why consistency across all documents published in a given month or > > year matters. > > I don't think that was Eric's point. He showed that a *revised RFC* > had stylistic changes such as capitalization in the headings and > copy-editing changes (for example, changing "that" for "which", or > changing "since" to "because"). He pointed out a real mechanical > problem: it is hard to use a diff-style tool to determine the relevant > changes. > > Thus, there may be a Techspec requirement here that the publisher not > make purely stylistic changes on RFC revisions.
That's exactly the question I think is appropriate to be considering. -Ekr _______________________________________________ Techspec mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec
