My impression is that the IETF quite regularly does new things that break current, actively used, maintained, and even standards-track protocols. Maybe we should worry about those before worry about breaking older protocols. Keith On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf