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Re: History behind RFC numbers

2014-10-02 08:47:17
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Farrell" <stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie>
To: "Loa Anderson" <loa(_at_)pi(_dot_)nu>
Cc: "ietf" <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:23 PM

On 02/10/14 12:53, Loa Anderson wrote:
Can someone tell me what is broken?

IETF participant inability to refrain from commenting
on even the silliest proposals?

but it is a nice exemplar of the point that incorporating structure in
an identifier is almost always a bad idea, as the structure does not
persist for very long.  An identifier should be an identifier, easy to
use, to read and write and to enter into some store of information where
the details can be found.

Tom Petch







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