On Mon December 6 2004 10:32, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
I am currently involved in an experimental process to see what it
would take to hold to the notion that Proposed and Draft Standards
shouldn't stay in that state forever. There are a number of mail
related standards that fall into this category, and I wonder if
people can tell me whether the list of standards below (or any
others on the broader list) should stay or go. The original list
was generated programmatically by looking for proposed standards
below RFC 2000 that are not obsoleted (we'll do draft later).
Don't forget Informational RFCs. For example, RFC 1344 has
some very important advice for gateway implementors (and
that includes software which acts as a gateway, such as
message scanners). Unfortunately some such implementors
have ignored 1344, resulting in problems:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836088