At 03:58 PM 1/4/00 -0800, Rick H Wesson wrote:
In short you are suggesting that the I-D be published to document a
bad but current practice?
A review of the Informational RFCs issued in the past few years would
reveal a few RFCs that match that description quite well.
It seems counter-intutative but I am certainly
not "in the know" as to how these things work.
It is a bit counter-intuitive until you look at the alternative. There
isn't a good, central, free, open repository for these things other than
RFCs. This isn't to say that every protocol should go there. I would say
that only "important" (either due to politics or the number of
implementations using the protocol) protocols should qualify.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium