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[Gendispatch] Re: Archival Dysfunction

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 10 July 2024 20:43 UTC

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On 11-Jul-24 03:32, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> said:
>>> I think the idea behind RFC4693 was fundamentally sound: if we don't treat this class of material as a formal series with archival properties, there will be information loss.
>>
>> Many influential people in the IETF have this strongly-held feeling that everything we do must be archived and forever available. That places an exceedingly high burden on our
>> practices and processes. I'd even say it could lead to ossification.
> 
> The wikis I know let you go back and look at previous versions. There
> are plenty of ways to remember the history that is a lot less
> heavyweight than issuing and reissuing RFCs.
> 
> My general preference is that RFCs are well suited for specifications
> that we hope third parties will implement. Other than that we could
> save a lot of effort by making less formal documents less formal.

Indeed. "Archived" and "Less formal" are orthogonal properties.

    Brian

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