I recently saw 'deprecate' used in an IANA Considerations and turned to
"IANA Considerations" [RFC5226] to see how it was defined only to find
no mention of it there. I am used to the term from SMI, as quoted
below, but that seems not quite right, in that a deprecated IANA entry
never disappears, as in
http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers/smi-numbers.xhtml#smi-number
s-5
Are there other, perhaps better definitions of the term 'deprecated' in
use outside SMI (and yes, I know about praying nuns!)?
Tom Petch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
To: "IPv6 Maintanence" <ipv6(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:32 PM
Subject: "Deprecate"
At the mike a moment ago, I referred to an existing formal definition
of "deprecate". For the record, the reference is to RFC 1158, which
reads:
3.1. Deprecated Objects
In order to better prepare implementors for future changes in the
MIB, a new term "deprecated" may be used when describing an object.
A deprecated object in the MIB is one which must be supported, but
one which will most likely be removed from the next version of the
MIB (e.g., MIB-III).
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