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Re: Call for Review of draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired, "List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by an Online Database"

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Tue, 20 August 2013 20:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Review of draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired, "List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by an Online Database"
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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I am having trouble understanding this discussion.

If the data is in a database then surely the production of RFC xx00
standards series is simply running an automated query on the database and
emitting the result as an RFC?

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