Carsten,
please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, and
see if it answers your question.... this has been a major discussion
source....
Harald
--On 16. desember 2004 15:40 +0100 Carsten Bormann <cabo(_at_)tzi(_dot_)org>
wrote:
So what does HISTORIC mean?
-- bad protocol (advice is to get rid of it), as in RIPv1
-- bad specification, but the protocol is alright
-- an underlying/related technology is dying out slowly
-- an underlying/related technology is used mainly in parts of the world
many IETFers don't visit that often
-- the market is stable, so there won't be new implementations
-- existing open source implementations are doing well, so there won't be
new implementations
-- there is unlikely to be new development about this standard, as in IPv4
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