Re: IETF Y2K Compliance...

Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com> Fri, 09 July 1999 14:50 UTC

Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 07:37:19 -0700
From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>
Subject: Re: IETF Y2K Compliance...
In-reply-to: "Your message dated Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:03:55 -0500" <034501beca0b$81159980$0101010a@naperville.unir.com>
To: Jim Fleming <jfleming@anet.com>
Cc: fred@cisco.com, Erik.Huizer@sec.nl, ietf@ietf.org, poised@lists.tislabs.com
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> The IETF may not have noticed that this is 1999 and
> some organizations are trying to make sure that they
> are Y2K compliant. Using 2 digit year codes will not
> get you there. I suggest that you review all of the IETF
> "Processes" for compliance.

Jim, apparently you have not noticed that work on this issue has been
underway for quite some time. See:

  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/2000-charter.html

for details. In particular, you'll want to look at the output of this group,
RFC 2626.

				Ned