Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The fact remains that RFC 821 has the STANDARD imprimatur and the better > specification that was intended to replace it does not. > > It seems pretty basic to me that when you declare a document Obsolete it > should lose its STANDARD status. But under the current system that does not > happen. We could write a draft to move RFC 821 to Historic, though. Then it would lose its full standard status. Are there any reasons not to do that? I don't think we want implementers to read RFC 821 except for historical purposes, and instead want them to read RFC 5321. Moving RFC 821 to Historic would convey that message, I believe. /Simon _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf