Re: RIPE Documents Modified

[Lars-Johan Liman <]

rendek@localhost:
> Dear Marc, 

> Thank you for pointing out the minor changes made to ripe-141,
> ripe-142, ripe-191. Apologies are extended and we realise that this
> is not the agreed procedure for updating RIPE documents. We assure you
> that these changes will not set a precedent for future modifications
> made to RIPE documents.

> Regards, 

> Paul Rendek
> RIPE NCC

*THIS*IS*NOT*GOOD*ENOUGH*!

I strongly share James's and Nigel's concern about this.

You have performed a major change (the "optional" to "mandatory" is a
_significant_ difference!) and all you can do is apologize.

What James wanted was an explanation **WHY** you stepped from the
_VERY_STRONG_ convention that numbered Internet documents (which is
clearly outspoken in the RIPE series of documents) don't change, and
so far we have seen no explanation what so ever.  You'd better have a
strong reason that also has the property that it is obvious that it is
not going to happen again.

Unless you do, I demand that the changes be backed out, and that new
documents be issued with new numbers, even if you just change a colon
to a comma. New numbers are cheap and the have the nice property that
there are plenty of them. Countless, actually.

				Very upset,
				  /Liman
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