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Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 08 September 2010 23:20 UTC

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On 9/8/2010 8:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
> Can we please, please, please kill Informational RFC's?
...
>    why would we possibly ask ourselves to
> shoot ourselves in the foot by continuing the practice of Informational RFC
> publication?


wow.  it's oddly fun to see you run off the rails like this.

must be a form of schadenfreude...

d/

ps.  in other words, -10.

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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