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Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

2010-09-08 14:52:45
Eric,

On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

Can we please, please, please kill Informational RFC's?  Pre-WWW, having 
publicly available documentation of hard-to-get proprietary protocols was 
certainly useful.  However, in today's environment of thousands of 
Internet-connected publication venues, why would we possibly ask ourselves to 
shoot ourselves in the foot by continuing the practice of Informational RFC 
publication?

No, I completely disagree.

My personal recent favorite information RFC is RFC 5211.  This would have never 
been published by the IETF (IESG, IRTF, or IAB tracks) and provided an 
important service for the community.

Bob


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