Re: [apps-discuss] Applications Area Directorate review of draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-dpa-etal-00

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for doing the review, Ted.

> RFC 4271 says that additions to the relevant IANA registry require
> either standards action or must follow an early allocation policy (RFC
> 4020).
> It does not specify the requirements for deprecation; if the IESG
> believes that standards action is also required for deprecation, then
> this document should be updated to standards track.

And, indeed, on 21 Feb a second last-call notice was sent out with
this annotation:

> This document was previously Last Called as Informational. However it
> deprecates codepoints that were created by Standards Track documents.
> It is therefore being re Last Called as a Proposed Standard. The
> text change to PS is provided via an RFC Editor Note in the tracker.

Barry, who would have rather seen it done by a management action