On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: > > Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. In fact, these protocols were always, and are still, *experimental*. It would seem logical to assign them the Experimental category and be done with it. > > Bob Braden I would like to second Bob's position here. as a co-author for NETBLT (RFC998): NETBLT was out of a research effort to answer the question: can we *fully* utilize long delay, high bandwidth (and potentially error prone) networks? NETBLT says and here is one way to do it. Over the years (it's published in 1987) I have received comments from many people saying that they learned something interesting or even useful from NETBLT. The NETBLT paper (SIGCOMM 1987) got cited over 200 times. As RFC998 stated clearly: This document is published for discussion and comment, and does not constitute a standard. The proposal may change and certain parts of the protocol have not yet been specified; implementation of this document is therefore not advised. I don't see any harm to keep it as is. Lixia PS: on the other hand, what would a "historical status" imply? the ideas obsolete? > On 1/5/2011 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport >> layer protocols - exactly IRTP (RFC938), RDP (RFC908,1151) and NETBLT >> (RFC998). Initially there have been proposed to define IANA >> considerations for them. But after a discussion it was found out that it >> would be better to move them to Historic. I am writing to request more >> wider discussion on this topic. >> >> There is quite strong consensus that IRTP should be Historic. There is a >> registered draft on this topic: >> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yevstifeyev-tsvwg-irtp-to-historic/ >> >> But as for others it should be discussed. Moreover, maybe anyone knows >> some other old transport-layer protocols that are no longer in use? >> >> Please copy tour answer to tsvwg@xxxxxxxx >> >> All the best, >> Mykyta Yevstifeyev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf