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

[SM <[e-mail]>]

Hi Pete,
At 12:01 20-08-2013, Pete Resnick wrote:
>The IESG and the IAB had an email exchange about these two points. 
>Moving a document from Standard to Historic is really an IETF thing 
>to do. And it would be quite simple for the IETF to say, "We are no 
>longer asking for the 'Official Protocol Standards' RFC to be 
>maintained" by updating (well, effectively removing) the one 
>paragraph in 2026 that asks for it, and requesting the move from 
>Standard to Historic. So I prepared a *very* short document to do that:
>
>http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-retire-std1/

I read the draft.  I agree with what is written above.

>I'm asking Jari to Last Call it along with a status change for STD 1 
>(RFC 5000) to Historic. If the RFC Editor wants to explain more of 
>the history and whatever else they're going to do in a separate 
>document, that's up to the IAB. But declaring Standards to be 
>Historic is something the RFC Editor or IAB shouldn't be doing. The 
>above document solves the problem by making it clear that the IETF 
>isn't interested in the document being updated anymore.

I support moving the draft to Last Call as it solves the problem.

Regards,
-sm