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

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 13:59, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:

> What people are
> actual asking for is a decent way to find RIPE (drafts-) documents.

As the person who proposed this, I have to disagree. What I was asking
about was a way to know if "proposal 1234-56" refers to a proposal
within the RIPE or the ARIN community. That being said,...


> And that by various methods (keyword search, search by workgroup,
> policy type). One might be better of with something like the IETF
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/> or the tools on <http://tools.ietf.org/html/>
> then a "trick to encode a look up scheme in an identifier". (Thnk
> DNS versus a Google search).

...appending yet another integer to mark versions is A Good Thing.
Though I, personally, would simply set up gitweb or similar and dump
everything in there. IETF's datatracker is OK-ish, but leaves a lot to
be desired. Plus, keeping everything in a VCS allows everyone to read,
track, compare and revisit history with a myriad of tools of their own
choice, at a place of their choice, with the interface of their choice
instead of forcing them to be online and to use a website.


Richard

PS: Thanks to Nick Hiliard for his mail.