Hi, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:12:08PM +0200, Mihnea-Costin Grigore wrote:
Problem Statement -------------------- The RIPE PDP process is too complicated for everyone: outsiders, new members, experienced members, authors, and the RIPE NCC. Therefore, participation should be made easier, especially for new-comers.
Main scope: - The initial focus and effort are on the RIPE PDP -- proposals, drafts and policy documents; if any progress is made here, then we can think of applying the same or similar solutions to other areas of RIPE documentation - Any solutions discussed should also work for non-techies
Details of the problem:
a) The meta-data provided is incomplete: - RIPE Policy Documents and Policy Proposals don't have unique and clearly identified global names/identifiers - There is no clear version and date for publication - There is no track of who and when requested and approved a certain change - There is no clear up to date succession and obsolescence information within documents - There is no canonical way to get an overview of all currently active documents
b) There is no systematic access to all versions of a document: - There is no directly available history - There are no easy to use tools to correlate between versions - There are no tools for authors to submit new/corrected versions of a document as it evolves through the PDP
c) There is no plain-text version of each document and version thereof in ASCII format
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I find this a fairly impressive piece of work - it follows the rule "a document is perfect if there is no longer something to take away", which is much harder than writing a 50 page document. And I agree with the problem statement :-) Gert -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279