Bruce Lilly wrote:
...
Aside from the label -- and that's not a clear benefit because Historic is
ambiguous -- I don't see much difference between Historic and an
Informational RFC with a suitable IESG note (a "warning label" if you will).
There's a difference. For example, imagine a media type called
splat/illogical
that's been used for some years but is generally considered to be
illogically named, and a new media type has been defined to do the
same thing:
splot/logical
It would then be reasonable to document splat/illogical as Historic
to explain its IANA registration, and to document splot/logical as
Informational.
But you're certainly correct that a health warning in the text of
the RFC is more important than a status marker in the index.
Brian
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