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

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

On 8/20/13 3:26 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> 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?

I'm sure that such a tool could be created. To date, I believe the 
document was being built by hand.

However, the document hasn't been produced in over 5 years and nobody 
seems to miss it. The RFC Editor has indicated that they're not 
enthusiastic about keeping the document up to date given that there's a 
web page with that information that is getting good use. So the thinking 
behind the document I submitted was, "Let the RFC Editor off the hook. 
We, the IETF, don't need the RFC published separately anymore, so we 
should just say that."

I suppose if there's a real resurgence of sentiment that the RFC Editor 
should keep producing that document, we can tell the IAB that the IETF 
still really wants that document produced and send them off to write a 
tool that queries their database and auto-creates the RFC. In the 
absence of such sentiment, I think we should just use the web-based 
database and clean up the STD series as stated.

pr

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