Hi Pete,
At 12:01 20-08-2013, Pete Resnick wrote:
The IESG and the IAB had an email exchange about these two points.
Moving a document from Standard to Historic is really an IETF thing
to do. And it would be quite simple for the IETF to say, "We are no
longer asking for the 'Official Protocol Standards' RFC to be
maintained" by updating (well, effectively removing) the one
paragraph in 2026 that asks for it, and requesting the move from
Standard to Historic. So I prepared a *very* short document to do that:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/
I read the draft. I agree with what is written above.
I'm asking Jari to Last Call it along with a status change for STD 1
(RFC 5000) to Historic. If the RFC Editor wants to explain more of
the history and whatever else they're going to do in a separate
document, that's up to the IAB. But declaring Standards to be
Historic is something the RFC Editor or IAB shouldn't be doing. The
above document solves the problem by making it clear that the IETF
isn't interested in the document being updated anymore.
I support moving the draft to Last Call as it solves the problem.
Regards,
-sm