--On onsdag, juni 04, 2003 11:54:03 -0400 Dean Anderson <dean(_at_)av8(_dot_)com>
wrote:
inline. I apologize in advance for so many questions. I have looked on the
ISOC site, and IAB site, and other pages to find the answers to these
questions.
since most of your questions can easily be answered "no", I don't see the
point of going into details.
The "Obsoletes:" header is a protocol that is too weak to carry the full
semantics of the relationship between documents.
Proposed Standards are being used in the real world, for reasons that the
users of those standards find sufficient.
RFCs are never changed.
ISOC's code of conduct bullet 4 says:
Avoid deploying technologies that defeat generally accepted technical
principles of the Internet, as documented primarily by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). In particular, avoid technologies that tend
to subdivide access to the Internet rather than preserving its universal,
unique, and international nature, except as required by security
mechanisms >mentioned in the next paragraph
It is our fervent hope that we do not publish Proposed Standards that
defeat generally accepted technical principles of the Internet.
Harald