Re: [Iasa20] Odd deprecations in draft-ietf-iasa2-consolidated-upd-05

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Brian:

>>> 3716 [...] is just an old Informational on how we used
>>> to administer the IETF, so it needs to go.
>> 
>> Really, I do not agree.  RFC 3716 is the report of a committee formed by the IETF Chair and the IAB Chair at the time.  It is informational, and it was used as inout to develop other BCP process documents.  What does it even mean to deprecate such a committee report?
> 
> It means that it's no longer applicable, which I think is correct. It might well be of interest to a social historian, so "historic" doesn't seem inappropriate to me. That's the only word that will appear in the RFC index and other metadata.

I would be much happier if it were "moved to historic" as opposed to "deprecated" for this situation.  However, see below.

>> Further, RFC 3716 only contains a single reference to "Executive Director", and that is a historical note about where the position was homed.  So, it is not clear to me how this got sucked up in the IASA2 activity.
> 
> Only because it uses the term ED in the now outmoded sense. My fault, I ran the grep command that found it.

That is a fine way to create a list of documents that might need to be handled bu tthis WG.  But, this one is a false positive.

I think this any reference to RFC 3716 should be removed from draft-ietf-iasa2-consolidated-upd.  Since it contains no tasking to the Executive Director, I do not believe it falls under the charter of this WG.

Russ