Re: Last Call: <draft-gp-obsolete-icmp-types-iana-01.txt> (Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types) to Proposed Standard

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I have a wording problem with this as below:

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
> the following document:
> - 'Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types'
>   <draft-gp-obsolete-icmp-types-iana-01.txt> as Proposed Standard
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2013-02-14. Exceptionally, comments may be
> sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the
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>
> Abstract
>
>    A number of ICMPv4 message types have become obsolete in practice,
>    but have never been formally deprecated.  This document deprecates
>    such ICMPv4 message types, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA
>    registry.  Additionally, it updates RFC792 and RFC950, obsoletes
>    RFC1788, and requests the RFC Editor to change the status of RFC1788
>    to "Historic".

I'm OK with deprecating these ICMPv4 message types. But this could be
said to "clean up" the IANA registry only, in my opinion, if the
entries were removed, which would be a bad idea. But the draft does
not remove these entries or simplify the registry, it annotates the
entries. I consider the wording "clean up", as used here, to be
misleading.

I suggest the second sentence of the abstract be changed to "This
document deprecates such ICMPv4 message types and annotates the
corresponding IANA registry entries." and that corresponding changes
be made elsewhere in the draft where "clean up" is used.

Thanks,
Donald
=============================
 Donald E. Eastlake 3rd   +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
 d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx

> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gp-obsolete-icmp-types-iana/
>
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gp-obsolete-icmp-types-iana/ballot/
>
>
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
>
>


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