Henning,
> > No, lack of action by the community to request moving documents to
> > Historic.
>
> There seem to be a number of these housekeeping tasks that have almost
> no benefit to the individual, have increasing costs and ever longer-term
> commitments and thus, not surprisingly, don't get done on a regular
> basis. Promotion and demotion of standards are prime examples, reviewing
> is another.
>
> Besides appealing to community spirit, other organizations deal with
> that by deputizing individuals that get recognized for doing this type
> of work in general, in one way or the other. This can take the "New
> York's Strongest" (Dept. of Sanitation) or the "XYZ
> secretary" approach.
>
> In many cases, people do unpleasant or boring or no-immediate-reward
> tasks in hope of getting promoted later - this is why I suggested WG
> secretaries earlier and maybe why having elected IESG secretaries or the
> IETF Dept. of Public Works ("just leave your old standards at the curb")
> might be needed.
Have you seen draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00? It proposes something along
these lines.
John
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