We often replace a Proposed Standard with an updated document that
remains at the Proposed Standard maturity level. There does not seem to
be confusion when this happens.
Russ
On 6/20/2010 8:01 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
"In several situations, a Standard is obsoleted by a Proposed Standard"
A Standard is not obsoleted by a Proposed Standard. A RFC with a status
of Internet Standard can be obsoleted by a RFC at Proposed Standard.
In some cases, it should be possible to replace an RFC with a reviewed
version, at the same maturity level. For example, the attention that
successive SMTP documents have to pay to source routing decreases over
time. There is no reason why a new RFC aimed at reviewing a mature spec
would need to reduce its maturity level, if it accomplishes the current
requirements for third level. I hope this point will be made clearer.
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