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Re: exploring the process of self retiring one's name from an RFC

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Fri, 19 April 2019 16:49 UTC

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:49:09 -0400
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: exploring the process of self retiring one's name from an RFC
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:

> Le 19/04/2019 à 17:47, Paul Wouters a écrit :
>>  You seem to think the RFC should not apply anymore. So convince your
>>  old authors and/or the appropriate WG to move the RFC to Historic
>>  status.
>
> I agree with your understanding.  But my co-authors certainly think it is not 
> a Historic document but very up to date.

Then I agree with others here, and there is nothing you can or should
do. Plenty of people have their names on documents that turned out to
not work as expected. There is no shame in that. You were part of the
process that led to new and improved protocols. Thanks for that.

Paul

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