On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:08:21AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > > > Because the April 1 documents are usually considered part of the > Series but not part of any particular stream, it is not clear > how the proposed changes would affect them. I do suggest that > giving them separate names and numbers would vastly weaken their > effects (I note that the "avian carrier" documents have > sometimes been mistaken for Internet Standards too). On the "usually" point, someone does have to deal with errata reports on them. For the modern ones (postdating the concept of streams), I gather that such reports go to the ISE. For what it's worth (probably not much). -Ben
