the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive
removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes
sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do
but the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3 says:
The RFC Editor shall publish periodically an "Internet Official
Protocol Standards" RFC [1], summarizing the status of all Internet
protocol and service specifications.
is a process requirement -
this requirement is the specific text that should be removed
and is worth spinning a RFC to do
and while you are at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd
paragraph in the same section
An official summary of standards actions completed and pending shall
appear in each issue of the Internet Society's newsletter. This
shall constitute the "publication of record" for Internet standards
actions.
should also be removed since that is not being done either
and it is not good to say we have a publication of record that
does not actually exist
Scott
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On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:16 AM, The IESG <iesg-secretary(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary
Document'
<draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt> as Best Current Practice
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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Abstract
This document updates RFC 2026 to no longer use STD 1 as a summary of
"Internet Official Protocol Standards". It obsoletes RFC 5000 and
requests the IESG to move RFC 5000 (and therefore STD 1) to Historic
status.
The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/ballot/
No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.