the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do but the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3 says: The RFC Editor shall publish periodically an "Internet Official Protocol Standards" RFC [1], summarizing the status of all Internet protocol and service specifications. is a process requirement - this requirement is the specific text that should be removed and is worth spinning a RFC to do and while you are at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd paragraph in the same section An official summary of standards actions completed and pending shall appear in each issue of the Internet Society's newsletter. This shall constitute the "publication of record" for Internet standards actions. should also be removed since that is not being done either and it is not good to say we have a publication of record that does not actually exist Scott Scott O Bradner Senior Technology Consultant Harvard University Information Technology Innovation & Architecture (P) +1 (617) 495 3864 1033 Mass Ave, room 462 Cambridge, MA 02138 On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:16 AM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > - 'Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary > Document' > <draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt> as Best Current Practice > > 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 2013-10-01. Exceptionally, comments may be > sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. > > Abstract > > > This document updates RFC 2026 to no longer use STD 1 as a summary of > "Internet Official Protocol Standards". It obsoletes RFC 5000 and > requests the IESG to move RFC 5000 (and therefore STD 1) to Historic > status. > > > > > The file can be obtained via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/ > > IESG discussion can be tracked via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/ballot/ > > > No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. > >