[address-policy-wg] Re: Re: Unique prefixes for all proposals

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 14:15, Remco Van Mook
<Remco.vanMook at eu.equinix.com> wrote:

> Since policy proposals are transient and RIPE documents are permanent, I would strongly urge to stay away from any attempt to rename or renumber RIPE documents. RFCs don't get renamed or renumbered either, and for very good reason.

Renumbering is out of the question for obvious reasons.

_If_ the naming scheme for documents were to be changed, it would need
to happen in a fully backwards compatible way. For example, an
existing ripe-1234 would still be ripe-1234, but ripe-doc-1234 could
be used as a "soft link" to it. For the _new_ document ripe-doc-2345
might be used as the sole name from the beginning.

But again, this is not part of my initial proposal. I went with a
simple and, hopefully, uncontroversial proposal first. If and when
other naming schemes should be evaluated as well will need to be
determined later. Unless there is a general consensus that we should
do it all at once. In which case I would not be opposed to discussing
this, either.


Richard