John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > See my most recent note (and Keith's and Geert's that preceded it and > John Levine's recent one that followed it). Recent best practice > suggesting that ssh is a better option for most applications on the > main/public Internet is not sufficient justification for moving it to > Historic, no matter how passionately you and some others feel about > that, especially so because there is no standards-track definition > for SSH. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/secsh/documents/ You are right. There isn't one RFC. There are 13. The IESG will not be sending anyone to delete your telnet/telnetd binary. Nor will anyone be editing /etc/services to remote port 23 from your system.