Henning,
No, lack of action by the community to request moving documents to
Historic.
There seem to be a number of these housekeeping tasks that have almost
no benefit to the individual, have increasing costs and ever longer-term
commitments and thus, not surprisingly, don't get done on a regular
basis. Promotion and demotion of standards are prime examples, reviewing
is another.
Besides appealing to community spirit, other organizations deal with
that by deputizing individuals that get recognized for doing this type
of work in general, in one way or the other. This can take the "New
York's Strongest" (Dept. of Sanitation) or the "XYZ
secretary" approach.
In many cases, people do unpleasant or boring or no-immediate-reward
tasks in hope of getting promoted later - this is why I suggested WG
secretaries earlier and maybe why having elected IESG secretaries or the
IETF Dept. of Public Works ("just leave your old standards at the curb")
might be needed.
Have you seen draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00? It proposes something along
these lines.
John
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