Subject: Re: RFC errata

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:55:04 -0400

In message <[email-masked]>, gabriel montenegro writes:
>Thanks to an alert reader, we've recently spotter one more error in an existin
>g
>RFC. Usually, we make lists of these and after a few years (months if we're lu
>cky)
>issue a corrected and improved version of the document.
>
>Question is: where can these errata be kept in the meanwhile?

http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html

>Since RFC's don't necessarily belong to any given WG, perhaps the tracking
>shouldn't either. If one of the recently discussed tracking tools were used fo
>r this purpose,
>this would mean the IETF would have to choose a given one.
>
>Comments?
>
>-gabriel
>
>

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