+1 > On Jun 13, 2021, at 7:37 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > --On Sunday, 13 June, 2021 13:10 -0700 Aqua Q Glass > <aquaqglass@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> a metadata ammendment towards the [RFC,documents] which >> supersede prior art, as denoted and approved with new >> documents, will provide hypertext and dedupe questions.. and >> additionally a place for IETF to maintain FAQs around >> relatable RFCs, online vs. adhoc email, and with authenticity. > > It turns out to be not quite that easy, especially if one tries > to avoid making other significant changes. This is, however, > exactly the territory that NEWTRK [1] starting about 2004 and > running through 2006 or so, with periodic attempts to restart or > build on that work. > > While I believe that, after nearly 15 years, it is time to look > at these questions again, I don't believe anyone who was heavily > involved in that original effort would recommend initiating a > follow-up effort (or a completely new one with similar goals) > unless it was clear that the IESG was prepared to accept and > process whatever conclusions and consensus that WG managed to > reach. > > Happy reading. > john > > > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/newtrk/about/ > > >
