[ncc-services-wg] Pre-PDP discussion: "All PDP emails, documents and websites should come with unified diff"

* Richard Hartmann

>   All PDP-related emails, web pages, and other documents published by
> RIPE NCC will either carry a unified diff (diff -ruN) or directly link
> to a page which shows said unified diff.
> 
>   Other formats, like full text, old/new text, etc are encouraged as
> well, but the diff is the binding format in which PDPs are published,
> documented, and discussed.

As discussed on IRC, during the preparation of 2013-03 I submitted a
last-minute amendment. This amendment made it into the complete new
policy document[1], but not in the side-by-side diff[2].

[1]
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/other-documents/ipv4-address-allocation-and-assignment-policies-for-the-ripe-ncc-service-region-new
[2]
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/other-documents/ipv4-address-allocation-and-assignment-policies-for-the-ripe-ncc-service-region-current

I noticed this myself, and it was corrected shortly after. This is not a
complaint - I have only myself to blame for changing the proposal after
all the documentation had been produced.

That said, if both the current and the new proposed policy was written
in a standardised plain-text[ish] format, creating the side-by-side diff
page could have been a fully automated task with no risk of omissions,
rather than a manual one.

Just a data point...

Tore