= > Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@cwi.nl> writes: = > = > Hyperlinking documents in a national language into some = > international document is pretty useless. = =I do not agree. Someone local searching for the document =may find it through the international document. =Why don't you let the user decide? While I do not want to comment on the usefulness of this approach - I'm certainly worried with the logistics. How would you keep the links "healthy" in the long run and the referred-to documents up-to-date? . Either store the documents where they are maintained --> broken links, eventually. . Or store the documents alongside with the parent doc at the RIPE-NCC --> non-trivial to make the access "secure" and at the same time resonably comfortable to ensure regular updates. = > The best = > compromise would be a short description in English of = > the procedures and policies, provided that is made very = > clear that said description does *not* formally take the = > role of the original documents. = =That would be excellent service o course. Nice to have, I agree. Otoh, I don't really understand the rationale to register a name in country when there is nobody available to cope with a local-language document... (Yes we keep getting such requests more frequently these days :-) =Daniel Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at> writes: . Either store the documents where they are maintained --> broken links, eventually.
I do not expect much volatility in this area. Also the new setup of the RIPE docstore will note this as it happens and it can be fixed quickly.
. Or store the documents alongside with the parent doc at the RIPE-NCC --> non-trivial to make the access "secure" and at the same time resonably comfortable to ensure regular updates.
This is slightly more involved and therefore 2nd choice.
Nice to have, I agree.
Otoh, I don't really understand the rationale to register a name in country when there is nobody available to cope with a local-language document... (Yes we keep getting such requests more frequently these days :-)
This is why I say 'nice service'. It is not required and as Piet says can be just some explanations which are explicitly a summary and not formally binding. It can be useful however for someone making an overview of what is required for -say- a pan-European company. In this case they do not need to have n documents translated just to produce the overview. Daniel
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Daniel Karrenberg
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