Scott,
On one hand, most of these RFCs do not harm the Internet. However, if we don't clean house periodically, we are left with the following questions:
1) In the future, does the IETF have the latitude to do things that might break these old protocols?
2) If not, must the IETF maintain a cadre of people who are familiar with these old protocols to ensure that they are not broken?
3) If we don't maintain a cadre of people familiar with these RFCs, how should the community react to errata against them?
Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Scott O Bradner
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:37 PM
> To: Mykyta Yevstifeyev
> Cc: IETF Discussion
> Subject: Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)
>
> I'm fully supportive of reclassifying any RFCs that pose a risk to the
> Internet
> to historic but fail to see the usefulness of doing so for RFCs that
> describe
> unused but non-harmful technologies - seems like busywork and useless
> at best.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've recently received a message from Ronald Bonica, one of the ADs,
> proposing undertaking an effort to reclassify many pre-IETF (pre-1000)
> RFCs as Historic. However, I initially had a concern regarding
> community consensus on such effort, and whether it will be accepted so
> that the IESG may claim the former. Since I've already suggested a
> very similar proposal, and there was a negative reaction of community,
> I assumed the same would happen in the case Ronald pursued the work and
> forwarded it to the IESG. So am I right?
> >
> > Mykyta
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