Re: RIPE Documents Modified

[Nigel Titley <]

> Can anyone explain why the ripe-141, ripe-191 and ripe-142 documents have been
> modified recently on the RIPE NCC ftp server rather than having new documents
> issued with new numbers?  It's also interesting to note that the Postscript
> versions of these documents seem unchanged.  
> 
> And, yes, I realise that there is a requirement to bring database objects
> described in the documents in line with the new database implementation but
> shouldn't this have been done by issuing new documents?  Is it helpful to have
> (potentially) different versions of the same document lying around with the
> same name?

If this has, indeed, happened then I for one would be very disturbed. The only way to modify a RIPE document should to be up-issue it. I recall Rob getting very heated about this at the Budapest RIPE meeting.

Nigel