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

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 4/19/19 10:44 AM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:

> I agree with Christian.
>
> Alex, my suggestion is to write a new draft call it 
> draft-someone-rfcxxxbis with the current text on the RFC minus you as 
> the author.
> Maybe you can not submit it you need to ask one of the co-authors to 
> submit.
>
That's a bad idea also.   The other authors' opinions in the past may 
not be their opinions now, and submitting their old text today as a new 
draft would presume that their opinions haven't changed.

The RFC is what it is, a record of some people's thoughts as of the time 
it was published.  Anyone who has been around this community very long 
realizes that he or she was once wrong about something he or she wrote 
in the past.   We just need to accept that and move on.

Keith

p.s. The 64-bit boundary was always a dubious idea in much the same way 
as hardwired IPv4 address "classes" were a dubious idea.   I would 
support phasing it out, even with the understanding that prefixes past 
/64 won't work for many existing IP-over-foo mechanisms.   To the extent 
that we can change some of those IP-over-foo mechanisms, it's probably 
worth doing so.