ietf
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 08:16:00
I'm not keen to start a language war, but. . .

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:

Moreover, 'obsoleted' means the same as 'deprecated' or 'non-current'  
(see http://www.synonym.com/synonyms/obsolete/ or  
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/obsolete/en-en/#synonyms). So it is a  
problem in RFC2026.

. . .I fully disagree with that, regardless of what those claims of
synonymy say.  To deprecate something is to express disapproval.  To
mark something as obsolete doesn't do that; it merely says that the
marked thing is outdated.  There is a useful distinction here worth
maintaining.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
ajs(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com
Shinkuro, Inc.
_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf