On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:37:10AM -0400, George, Wes wrote:
Please don't exactly replicate the RFC series's model where the existing document can only be updated by new documents but is not always completely replaced/obsoleted such that the reader is left following the trail of breadcrumbs across multiple documents trying to figure out what the union of the two (or 3 or 14) "current" documents actually means in terms of the complete guidance.
I have to agree with this. RFCs are the way they are because they represent an archival series (and even so, probably we could do a better job with this). The whole reasoning to create a completely new series with separate ways of creation was supposedly that the RFC series and BCPs didn't do what the community needed. It seems to me that one of the most important differences in operational guidance is that old operational guidance goes away when it is superseded by changed operational conditions, so there's no reason to keep the old documents around except as historical artifacts. If people want an archive for historians' use, I'm ok with it. But it seems to me that updating a document of the same number (and making them version numbered too) would be more useful. Then you could always refer to "BCOP 1234" for "Carrier Pigeon Operational Practices", and wouldn't need to update references and so on. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. email: asullivan@dyn.com voicemail: +1 603 663 0448