Re: exploring the process of self retiring one's name from an RFC

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> Apropos the original question, you don't get to rewrite history.  If
> you think an RFC you wrote is wrong, write a draft with or without
> the original co-authors saying why and see if you can get support for
> publishing it.  That's how the IETF works.

It's how the world works, when it works. Undo has always been more of a fantasy
than a reality, but thanks to Keller, Fennerty, Tilghman, et al., who
collectively made inexpensive paper widely available cira 1860, any chance
of it working was effectively eliminated.

And then along came digital, reducing the cost of copies to essentially zero.

Of course this hasn't stopped people from trying. And failing. Repeatedly.

Think of it as the world's first blockchain. And like a blockchain, your only
option is to publish a correction of some sort.

				Ned