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Re: [apps-discuss] RFC 1738 is made obsolete by what?

Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> Wed, 25 May 2016 21:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] RFC 1738 is made obsolete by what?
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On 26 May 2016 at 06:08, Paul E. Jones <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> RFC 1738 has been made obsolete, but the data that the RFC editor is
> provided (and as shown on tools) is that this document was made obsolete by
> the telnet and gopher URL schemes.  Surely that wasn't the message that was
> intended to be conveyed.  See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738.
>
> Wouldn't it be correct to say that this was made obsolete by 2396, which
> was then made obsolete by 3986?
>
> If I'm correct, then I think the "Obsoleted By" information is
> misleading.  If I'm wrong, then I'm entirely confused and I still assert
> that it's misleading :-)
>
> Is there a process to clarify this?
>
> Paul
>
>
​It'd be good to find this out. I have in my archives a brief discussion we
had on 2013-06-26 about this very issue. It was never resolved cleanly, and
so we find ourselves here today with my file: draft which says it obsoletes
an already obsolete RFC even though it only replaces one sub-section
thereof (§3.10, about half a page of RFC 1738) -- like telnet and gopher.

I wouldn't be surprised if this piece of metadata ends up being a bit of a
blocker, so it'd be good to get it straightened up.

Cheers
-- 
  Matthew Kerwin
  http://matthew.kerwin.net.au/

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