Re: Request for review of draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-03

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:57:39PM +0200, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:

> Andrew, in this case how do you propose to formulate this?  Mykyta

"Not"?  The goal you appear to have in this is to make the RFC series
tidy.  As the co-chair of a WG with an old and decidedly messy set of
protocol documents, I understand and value that desire.  But as the
same co-chair, I have to tell you that any assertion that some feature
(even if you think it is a dumb one that nobody ever should have used
anywhere for any reason) is unused is the sort of thing that leads you
into discussions of angels and pin-heads, trees falling in forests
with no-one to hear, and so no.

Heck, over in DNS land, we are barely willing to rely on features of
the protocol if we know that there is a 10 year old but once
widely-deployed piece of software that violated or didn't implement
that feature.

Setting up criteria that are formally nice but for which it is
impossible to construct a test is a bad idea.

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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