At 11:40 AM +0200 10/23/03, Alfred =?hp-roman8?B?SM5uZXM=?= wrote:
studying the [Open]PGP RFCs, I found a distracting situation
concerning the status of these RFCs:
Regarding 3156 and 2015, marking 2015 as Historic and obsoleted by
3156, and similarly, marking 3156 as obsoleting 2015 is a reasonable
action. To be honest, I don't know if the IESG is required to
recommend this action or if the RFC Editor can make this change at
the WG's request (which I've made on behalf of the WG).
In the past, Proposed RFCs that have been superceded by later RFCs
linger as Proposed indefinitely instead of becoming Historic. For
the sake of clarity your suggestion of marking 2015 as Historic is a
good one, which is why I've requested the change. However, the
common culture in the IETF is that a Proposed RFC which is obsolete
is no longer relevant, so it's status on standards track is
relatively harmless.
2440 does pay homage to 1991 in its text, but because 1991 is an
Informational RFC and was never standards track, there's nothing for
2440 to obsolete.
--
john noerenberg
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