On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 08:50:29AM -0500, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote: > I'm going to side with Keith here, right down the line (for once :-). > The issues of security, scaling, money, credibility etc all weigh > towards being careful with RFC's. > > As to the "information propogation" argument, we have this wonderful > thing called the WWW that allows anyone to "publish" anything they > want, in a way that almost anyone can get it trivially. We also have > I-D's, which allow people to actively bring their stuff to other > people's attention (although so many I-D's come out now that I expect > most people don't even carefully read all the announcements any more). > So I reckon that disposes of that point; it might have been valid in > 1974, but not in 2004. Yes on both counts.