Hi, Tom. >> Well, if people are really going to the .txt files on rfc-editor.org, >> then nothing we do in the process of changing an RFC's status will >> help them, and it doesn't matter whether we use "obsoletes" or not. > > I do indeed go to the underlying .txt files, every week - rfc-index.txt! > It is so much easier to search, to navigate than HTML. And it tells me > the Status. I was referring to using the .txt files for the RFCs; yes, the index contains the status. But if you go directly to, say, rfc3540.txt, it won't tell you that it's Historic. b
