Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

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Eric,

On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

> Can we please, please, please kill Informational RFC's?  Pre-WWW, having publicly available documentation of hard-to-get proprietary protocols was certainly useful.  However, in today's environment of thousands of Internet-connected publication venues, why would we possibly ask ourselves to shoot ourselves in the foot by continuing the practice of Informational RFC publication?

No, I completely disagree.

My personal recent favorite information RFC is RFC 5211.  This would have never been published by the IETF (IESG, IRTF, or IAB tracks) and provided an important service for the community.

Bob


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