RP> If this is true, when can we expect
RP> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt
RP> to be updated to reflect this change?
Probably not.
1. There are bigger things to spend our staff resources on
2. It is typical for formal documents to state requirements that are
more stringent than actually practised. In this case, the deviation is
small and the benefit of following the formal requirement is real.
d/
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