From: Alexey Melnikov (alexey.melnikov-usefor@isode.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 05:06:20 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>In <40B7DCFA.30204@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>
>
>>Henry Spencer wrote:
>>
>>>Why is this different from putting it in ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts as
>>>the current discussion version?
>>>
>>>
>>That would work, but Charles has explicitly refused to do so when requested
>>to provide the full text of the document for discussion.
>>
>>
>
>There is little point in publishing a full draft, whether on the landfield
>site or as an internet draft, when some text in question is under
>discussion and changing on an almost daily basis. Particularly so when, as
>in the particular recent cases referred to, the other parts of the
>document providing the context for the discussion at hand had not changed
>since the last full draft, as was pointed out at the time.
>
>I will publish a full draft whenever a relatively stable position has been
>reached, or where the interactions between various parts of the document
>have become overly complex. But where the changes are confined to one or a
>few short sections, it is better simply to publish the full text of those
>sections, as they currently stand, to this list.
>
I agree any small self-contained changes should be sent directly to the
list.
Alexey