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Graham Klyne <gk(_at_)ninebynine(_dot_)org> writes:
In response to an off-list comment, I'm making a small revision of the mail
message header registry draft [1] to mark header fields defined in RFC822
(as well as RFC2822) as standard rather than just "standards-track". This
raised two questions:
On looking into this further, I find myself confused :-( .
In the IETF scheme of things, a standards-track document can be either
"proposed astandard", "draft standard" or (full) "standard".
However, in draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-07.txt (which I presume is the
final approved draft) I find, under the registration template in 3.2.1:
Status:
Specify "standard", "experimental", "informational", "historic",
"obsoleted", or some other appropriate value according to the type
and status of the primary document in which it is defined. For
non-IETF specifications, those formally approved by other
standards bodies should be labelled as "standard"; others may be
"informational" or "deprecated" depending on the reason for
registration.
This seems to suggest that all the varieties of standard-track document
are to be lumped together and assigned the status "standard".
Which would actually make things simpler and avoid possible confusions
when the latest document is proposed/draft but is intended to supersede an
earlier full standard.
It also means that ALL your "standards-track" statuses in
draft-klyne-hdrreg-mail-03.txt should be changed to "standard" (note that
you have currently changed some of them to "standards", which is not
quite the same thing :-( ).
Note that, in the IANA Considerations section of USEFOR, I have followed
the registration template as written, and used "standard" throughout.
Methinks it is high time that the IESG appointed a "designated expert" as
required by the now-accepted-draft.
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