Hi John, > I suggest that, despite stumbling into it, > trying to do biblical-quality exegesis on the specific text and > wording of most RFCs is also a rat hole (or perhaps just a > different edge of the same one). We have to be reasonable in IETF. I don't understand your reason, do you mean 2050 is not needing update or do you mean it is a rat hole. There is no doubt that we need to close any rat hole, and to open to produce new drafts, I agree with Conrad and Moonesamy input, AB