Hi Brian,
At 03:12 PM 07-09-2022, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Why? A Proposed Standard can sit on the books and does no harm. Sometimes,
it turns out that there is a whole user community for such a standard
that we don't know about, for some version of "we".
Thank for asking the question. One of the reasons for an
organization to choose a standard is that there is a SDO which will
continue to maintain the standard. There are potential issues if the
SDO will no longer maintain its standard, e.g. the organization does
not have change control to take over maintenance of the standard.
There is probably a community out there which relies on some of the
standards which are listed as Proposed or Internet Standards, as you
mentioned above. It would be good to consider whether that community
should take over if the IETF is no longer interested in maintaining
that standard.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
