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Re: Call for Review of draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired, "List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by an Online Database"

2013-08-20 15:29:30


--On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 14:01 -0500 Pete Resnick
<presnick(_at_)qti(_dot_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> wrote:

On 8/15/13 2:06 PM, SM wrote:
At 11:48 14-08-2013, IAB Chair wrote:
This is a call for review of "List of Internet Official
Protocol  Standards: Replaced by an Online Database" prior
to potential  approval as an IAB stream RFC.

My guess is that draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired cannot update
RFC 2026.   Does the IAB have any objection if I do something
about that? [...]
The document argues that STD 1 is historic as there is an
online list now.

The IESG and the IAB had an email exchange about these two
points. Moving a document from Standard to Historic is really
an IETF thing to do. And it would be quite simple for the IETF
to say, "We are no longer asking for the 'Official Protocol
Standards' RFC to be maintained" by updating (well,
effectively removing) the one paragraph in 2026 that asks for
it, and requesting the move from Standard to Historic. So I
prepared a *very* short document to do that:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/

FWIW, I've reviewed your draft and have three comments:

(1) You are to be complemented on its length and complexity.

(2)  I agree that the core issue belongs to the IETF, and IETF
Stream, issue, not the RFC Editor and/or IAB.

(3) I far prefer this approach to the more complex and
convoluted RFC Editor draft.   If we really need to do something
formally here (about which I still have some small doubts), then
let's make it short, focused, and to the point.  Your draft
appears to accomplish those goals admirably.

   john

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