[rfc-i] request to deprecate numeric citations in xml2rfc

[Joe Touch]

Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
...
>> There are other versions that work:
>>     Touch85
>>     Touch1985
>>     Touch-85
>> etc. It doesn't matter which one, but it'd be useful to at least 
>> suggest  something (even if it isn't desirable to enforce).
> 
> 
> Those are better, but still not as good as strings that simply describe 
> what the reference is for, such as:
>      AuthMethods
>      RFCWriting
>      TaoOfTheIETF
> 
> Please do *not* standardize on an author-based naming system.

I disagree; absent authors or RFCs for that one series, there's no good 
way to know how to cite a paper, which means there's no good way to 
determine whether a paper is in the (often long list) of references. Did 
they name it TaoOfTheIETF? or IETFGeneralInfo?

I have referred to a few document series that use the author version; is 
there some reason RFCs are so unique that they need to have such an 
informal way of citing?

Joe
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