Re: HOWCUM.....

John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net> Wed, 31 May 1995 18:22 UTC

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>Historic is assigned when standards track documents are removed from the
>standards track.

Steve,

I thought we could (and have) classified experimental (and maybe even
informational) docs as historic when they had clearly outlived their
usefulness and posed enough of a problem that the energy to take some action
was justified.   Is that not the case?

   john