Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Eric Burger <eburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

This is not a problem caused by a casual misunderstanding. It is a
problem caused by one D.C. corporate lobbyist intentionally misreading
one document and then another D.C. corporate advocate insisting that
this misrepresentation was correct.

I don't think that there is anything that can be done to prevent
people from engaging in such activities other than the expectation of
damaging press if they force a rebuttal.


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