Re: filexfer: rationale style text in draft...

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost>]

On Monday, August 22, 2005 10:08:39 PM -0600 Joseph Galbraith 
<galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> wrote:

> I've a question for you draft-writing pros...
>
> Strewn throughout the filexfer draft are comments like the
> following examples:
>
>  > However, to ease the burden of implementation on servers that
>  > use a single, simple, seperator sequence...
>
> or
>
>  > Note that the name "supported2" is used here to avoid conflict
>  > with the slightly different "supported" extension that was
>  > previously used.
>
> In addition, there is the 'change-log' section.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that this kinds of 'rationale'
> or 'history' type comments are not appropriate, and
> should be removed?

The changelog should generally be removed in the RFC-editor process.
Rationale does not in general seem inappropriate to me, especially when the 
reason for a decision is non-obvious.