Re: [Idr] The IDR WG has placed draft-spaghetti-idr-deprecate-8-9-10 in state "Candidate for WG Adoption"

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Job Snijders wrote on 30/06/2022 15:16:> Deprecations in context of IDR are
> considered temporary, see John's
> > message https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/EMZdzGX9CsMQwLuRaeaFM_hycD8/
> > A deprecation can be made undone following working group consensus.
> 
> they can, but it requires effort to undo things like this.

Yes. Not doing anything would also result in effort :-)

> There is a long history of RFCs living for well beyond their shelf
> life.

Sure, but the existence of those RFCs does not necessarily invalidate
the need for the internet-draft at hand.

Large BGP Communities would've been undeployable on the codepoints that
were discovered to be squatted on.

BGP Open Policy [RFC 9234] would've been undeployable on the codepoints
that are to be deprecated if this internet-draft is published as RFC.

Not deprecating codepoints (discovered to have been squatted) might
jeopardize the the viability of future protocol extensions.

I appreciate the question you raise, I believe it is important to have
this discussion. My 2 euro cents!

Kind regards,

Job