[ipv6-wg] RIPE 554 Errata Page

> On 5/26/13 8:50 PM, Wilhelm Boeddinghaus wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> as shortly discussed  in Dublin I suggest to set up  an errata page for the RIPE 554 document. Errors have been found, and we cannot change anything in the document without getting a new RIPE document number. But having to many different versions of the document confuses our audience.
>> 
>> A errata page would make it possible to document minor but important changes of the content of the document.
>> 
>> If the group says "yes" we could ask RIPE to help with a page like this. It should be easily reachable from the download page of RIPE554.
> We need to make RIPE-554 a "living-document" of some sort, as we need to be able to correct typos, fix the newly found flaws and update the RFC numbers as they evolve.

It should not be a "living document" IMHO, it should provide a stable anchor for people to reference. Any major change should actually result in a new document and to me that includes new or updated RFCs.

Now with typos that is something different, mistakes happen and I agree that releasing a new reference to correct a comma or two swapped numbers (as is the case), we might need an errata list instead of pushing for a complete new document.

> If that's achieved through an errata - I'm fine with that :)

This has also been raised with the Working Group chair collective as it means a small but important change from the way RIPE Documents are currently handled.

Community feedback on this issue is really important as there are different ways to handle these issues, while maintaining a consistent document series of outstanding quality,

Marco Hogewoning
Co-chair of the IPv6 working group