Re: Visibility of current RFC Maturity Levels (and how they got there (was: Re: Last Call: Moving RFC 4405, RFC 4406, RFC 4407 (Sender-ID) to Historic)

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Visibility of current RFC Maturity Levels (and how they got there (was: Re: Last Call: Moving RFC 4405, RFC 4406, RFC 4407 (Sender-ID) to Historic)
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> For me as an AD, I am either looking at the tools.ietf.org HTML
> version or the datatracker page, or I am lamenting Google's
> algorithm that placed me somewhere else.  But I don't know what
> "people in general" are "reasonably expecting" to do; perhaps the
> RFC Editor's plain-text repository remains canonical in usage as
> well as in archival status, even if it is not for me.  (It's also
> unclear how useful http/rsync/etc access logs would be for trying to
> answer this question.)

I use rsync and find stuff using rfc-index.txt and rfc-index.xml.  Those 
have the obsoletes and updates links but no URLs.  Dunno how typical it 
is, but it's very convenient.  The full archive including all the bulky 
postscript is about .5GB, not much these days.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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