Dave Crocker wrote:
Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Because the IESG believed that specifying an image format
as an audio subtype was to be discouraged, but should be documented
for reference.
Historically, "documenting for reference" produces an Informational status,
rather than Historic.
Yes, and the idea was to make a stronger statement than "for reference".
iirc, we considered briefly approving it for Informational and then
immediately reclassifying it as Historic. But that seemed silly.
Brian
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