Bruce Lilly wrote: ...
Aside from the label -- and that's not a clear benefit because Historic is ambiguous -- I don't see much difference between Historic and an Informational RFC with a suitable IESG note (a "warning label" if you will).
There's a difference. For example, imagine a media type called splat/illogical that's been used for some years but is generally considered to be illogically named, and a new media type has been defined to do the same thing: splot/logical It would then be reasonable to document splat/illogical as Historic to explain its IANA registration, and to document splot/logical as Informational. But you're certainly correct that a health warning in the text of the RFC is more important than a status marker in the index. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf