At 6:45 PM -0600 2/15/06, Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS) wrote:
mankin-pub-req currently has requirements for both pre approval
(Potential Req-PREEDIT-1) and post approval (Req-POSTEDIT-1). We
need to decide which requirements stay and which ones go.
I think both requirements are needed, however each document should
only have to pass through either pre-approval editing or
post-approval editing but not both.
There is a significant problem with have a document edited
pre-approval and then not re-editing post-approval, namely the
changes that get introduced during the approval process itself. A
typical change is "add a section to the Security Considerations
talking about how Wxyz interacts with this protocol." Unless the
authors use exactly the same spelling, capitalization, reference
format, and so on, that new section will not match the rest of the
document.
There is also the very real issue of document authors not doing some
of the proposed edits, either intentionally or unintentionally.
If the document has had pre-approval editing, when it goes into
post-approval editing, one would hope that the editor would look at
the diffs from the earlier edit and only edit the changed sections.
Usage of pre-approval editing should be encouraged.
Fully agree.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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