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Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Tue, 15 August 2017 09:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 4861 missing updated-by
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:11:02 +0200
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To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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I don't think adding a new flag in a "Reserved" field qualifies as updating an RFC.
That's what we have IANA registries for.

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> On 13 Aug 2017, at 07:55, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Michael Richardson wrote:
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>> I think that the IESG should be able to create new forward references without publishing new documents.  It should be a relatively cheap operation.
> 
> Agreed. Potentially it could be done with a 2 week last call announcement so that if anyone disagrees, their voice can be heard.
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