At 09:43 AM 9/28/2002 -0700, Bob Braden wrote:
>[Why] do we have to do this all over again?
Bob, perhaps the right model is to start with that text and break it out to
a separate document, for independent treatment and citation. (The
precedent is ABNF.)
There are two justifications for doing this.
One is that 14 years is long enough to warrant a community review
and refinement of the definitions.
The other is that the current round of discussion suggests that
there is community interest for consensus on the terms, independent of a
particular set of protocols. The current context of the terms is tied to
the TCP/IP suite, rather than claiming to be generic to all data networking.
d/
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