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Re: another document categorization suggestion

2010-04-21 21:13:49


On 04/21/2010 05:55 PM, james woodyatt wrote:
everyone--

After just now finding the root cause of yet another stupid
interoperability problem to be an interaction between a client not
choosing a sufficiently unique host/session identifier and a server
being overly clever about using said identifiers for purposes other
than intended in the protocol specification...

WHEREAS the IETF has no document category for dealing with material
that is unfit for Standards Track, that does not in any way describe
Best Current Practice, provides Information of questionable utility,
which is neither yet limited to Historical interest nor of merely
Experimental nature...

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that IETF should create a new document category
for Disinformation, and that RFC 2516 should immediately and with
extreme prejudice be reclassified as such without further
discussion.

I believe that we already have (dis)informational


-- james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)apple(_dot_)com> member of technical staff,
communications engineering


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