Dave, If someone is willing to write the document and explain why ADSP has been moved to Historic, that's good for capturing lessons learned. I don't think it's required for the status change, but a bonus. Eliot On 11/20/13 6:25 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > On 11/20/2013 9:13 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> it should be done with a document that explains the >> deployment situation and explains why the reclassification is >> appropriate despite that. > ... >> John has a reasonable point about writing up an explanation, and we >> have had volunteers to do so. > > > The IETF has some history moving documents to Historic status. I have > not noticed that it has a track record of requiring documents to > explain the actions for these earlier examples. > > If indeed we've been doing it, what are these precedents? If we > haven't, why start now? > > What is the compelling community requirement that demands this > significant bit of extra work be imposed as a barrier to change in > status? > > Extra work needs to have compelling extra benefit. > > d/