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Re: Is it necessary to go through Standards Track to Get to Historic?

2005-08-28 17:34:41
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Bruce Lilly wrote:
The only specific procedures for getting to Historic in 2026 are
in sections 6.2 and 6.3 and involve getting to Historic from the
Standards Track.  Note that section 4.2.3 gives procedures for
Informational and Experimental RFCs, but that the only specific
procedures for Historic are in sections 6.2 and 6.3.

RFC 2026 sets the rules for Internet standardization, i.e., it is
authoritative with respect to the handling of standards or BCPs.
So it's fair to conclude that the procedures in sections 6.2
and 6.3 are the only way for a standards-track document to get to
Historic.  However, RFC 2026 does not set the rules for
non-standards track documents, as it explicitly says in Section
2.1.  It is therefore incorrect to conclude from a lack of explicit
mention of a mechanism in RFC 2026 that it is impermissible to
publish an obsolete specification Historic without going through
the standards track.

There is a precedent, by the way: RFC 2341.  Note that it postdates
RFC 2026.

//cmh


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