Re: Request for review of draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-03

On 3/3/11 8:18 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
> On 3/3/2011 7:11 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> > The first point, to echo Andrew Sullivan, is that even if a protocol
> > is in use
> > on the public Internet, it is not always easy to detect.
> ...
> > The second point is that enterprise uses and other private network
> > uses are
> > still valid uses. The fact that a protocol may be used only inside a
> > virtual
> > private network, or only inside a corporate data center, or in only
> > within a
> > military facility, does NOT mean that it is not used. Such limited use
> > is still
> > valid use and should not result in our declaring something obsolete.
>
> +1
>
> Declaration of historic needs to be based on affirmative data.  The
> declaration is actually only important to make for protocols that are
> known to be problematic.
>
> Issuing a declaration for mere non-use is a matter of convenience, not
> need, IMO.
And, further, probably it would not be worth the trouble to investigate
whether a protocol is not actually used (proving a negative is hard).

Peter

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