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Re: Last Call: <draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-12.txt> (Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs) to Best Current Practice

Scott Bradner <sob@sobco.com> Fri, 03 June 2016 13:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-12.txt> (Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs) to Best Current Practice
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> On Jun 3, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:

…

> The issue iirc is that if say RFCxxxx is obsoleting RFCyyyy
> must the IANA considerations in RFCxxxx say that all the
> registries that used point at RFCyyyy need to be updated to
> point at RFCxxxx? I don't think that needs to be done (but
> it can be done). I think Barry's position, and the text of
> the 5226bis draft say that it has to be done.

seems like a good make-work requirement with little actual benefit

of course, if the details of the registry changed with the replacement RFC that is a different case

Scott

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