Re: The IETF, Standards process, and the impact on the RFC series document production

[Randy Presuhn <[e-mail]>]

Hi -

On 10/4/2019 10:55 AM, Michael StJohns wrote:
> On 10/4/2019 12:48 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
>> The ITU-T has a much better document naming scheme, and they too have an
>> immutability property.  Thus ASN.1 is the x.680 document series (x.680,
>> x.681, x.682) and the encoding rules for ASN.1 are the x.690 series,
>> and each document gets a "version number" in the form of publication
>> year and month, and old versions remain accessible and unchanged.
>
> *laugh*  But then you end up with weirdnesses like X.500 vs X.509.  I 
> *know* why the certificate stuff started out in Directory oh so many 
> years ago, but in hindsight maybe not where it should be today?

And there are still some of us around who remember when ASN.1 was part 
of the
X.400 series...  (Though in fairness, ASN.1 has mutated significantly 
over the decades.)
If folks think things are immutable, they might need to take a longer 
view of history.

Randy