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Re: RFC 20 status change last call: References to appendices

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 02 January 2015 18:17 UTC

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To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: RFC 20 status change last call: References to appendices
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On 2015-01-02 18:10, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:04:55AM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>> Let's just recognize that making rules retroactive to a 40+ year
>> old spec is not likely to be fruitful.  [...]
>
> +1.  Especially given how useful RFC 20 is.
>
> Let's demonstrate agility and pragmatism here.  Promote RFC 20 after a
> small effort to ascertain the RFC-Editor's current electronic version's
> faithfulness to such "original" paper copies as might be found.  Or even
> *without* such an effort: publish any errors found later as errata and
> call it a day.

So we're supposed to make a decision over a document we currently can't see?

Best regards, Julian

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