> I tend to agree with that assumption, but am not sure that nothing at > all can be done. There may be room for something analogous to an > academic review paper that covers the history of a given field and > cites all the known relevant work, as a way to tie them together. > Though this would not qualify for standards-track (and would make > using an Updates: header difficult), one could perhaps make an > argument for BCP. Even Informational would probably still have value, > though. that would be an academic work, and there are no real world brownie points for publishing an rfc. randy
