Pete Resnick wrote:
On 1/18/04 at 8:56 AM -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:
According to the latest rfc-index, 1036 has not been obsoleted. It
might well be your opinion that it should be obsoleted or
reclassified, but that does not affect its official status. You are
of course free to petition for reclassification of RFC 1036 to
historic status (as RFCs 3166, 3638, etc. have done for other RFCs).
Oy. If I go ahead and get 1036 moved to historic, can we stop having
this discussion?
Well, if you can get 1036's requirements for parsing structure of an
unstructured
field (Subject) repudiated by any means, yes, we can stop having this
discussion.
I don't think moving 1036 to historic at this point would be wise, as
1036 does define
several extension fields.
But as the cognizant WG has not seen fit to repudiate the conflicting
sections of 1036,
it probably should be done by 2822's successor as the text message
format is affected.
On the other hand, if you can prompt the cognizant WG to either issue a
1036 amendment
that specifically addresses the conflicting issues or to issue a draft
of a 1036 successor that
has a non-zero chance of becoming an RFC, that would work also. To date
that WG has
produced neither (though at one point about a year ago there was a draft
proferred by
Dan Kohn that showed considerable promise).