>> I think explaining decisions which might not be obvious to a person who >> was not around when the decision was made is a good thing. > > Why isn't the IETF mailing list archive discussion about the status change > sufficient as an archival record? More than that, actually: the current process has added a pseudo-document that we use to manage the status-change process: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/ That pseudo-document has the necessary information, but it not published as an RFC. I think that if the RFC metadata were modified to point to the status-change document, so it's easy to find when one is looking at the RFC, that should be all we need. Barry