Bob Braden wrote:
I'd second the motion to whack STD designation. Nobody wants STD's,
anyway ;-)
I believe that many people want stable definitions of "well-known" Internet
standards. like SMTP (or IP, for that matter). STDs were a relatively
simple but inadequate solution for this. Let's not kill STDs before we
agree on a better solution.
The two limitations to the current STD scheme seem to be a) use of a number,
and b) inability to support simultaneous versions of the same specification.
Numbers are not mnemonic, and we do have the reality of revisions that take a
long time to replace the earlier version.
Switching to an acronym label with a year qualifier ought to fix both of these.
Hence the change would be to the STD naming rule, not the existence of STD.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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