RE: "Deprecate"

Tom,

Not a complete answer but look in RFC 4020 (especially 3.3) and
draft-cotton-rfc4020bis (currently in IETF last call).

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of t.p.
> Sent: 29 August 2013 12:56
> To: ietf
> Subject: "Deprecate"
> 
> I recently saw 'deprecate' used in an IANA Considerations and turned to
> "IANA Considerations" [RFC5226] to see how it was defined only to find
> no mention of it there.  I am used to the term from SMI, as quoted
> below, but that seems not quite right, in that a deprecated IANA entry
> never disappears, as in
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers/smi-numbers.xhtml#smi-
> number
> s-5
> 
> Are there other, perhaps better definitions of the term 'deprecated' in
> use outside SMI (and yes, I know about praying nuns!)?
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
> To: "IPv6 Maintanence" <ipv6@ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:32 PM
> Subject: "Deprecate"
> 
> 
> > At the mike a moment ago, I referred to an existing formal definition
> of "deprecate". For the record, the reference is to RFC 1158, which
> reads:
> >
> > 3.1.  Deprecated Objects
> >
> >    In order to better prepare implementors for future changes in the
> >    MIB, a new term "deprecated" may be used when describing an object.
> >    A deprecated object in the MIB is one which must be supported, but
> >    one which will most likely be removed from the next version of the
> >    MIB (e.g., MIB-III).
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