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

I'm more than happy to support your idea for the naming convention of policy proposals. I'll stick to my point of the actual documents however - history does not soft-link. Especially when people are expected to comply (which is the main reason for both protocol and policy to begin with) it's crucial to have a single name attached to it. Eternal confusion arises when you don't.

Remco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartmann [mailto:richih.mailinglist at gmail.com]
> Sent: woensdag 24 november 2010 15:37
> To: Remco Van Mook
> Cc: Daniel Roesen; address-policy-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [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


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