RE: [newtrk] Question about Obsoleted vs. Historic

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Henning,

> > No, lack of action by the community to request moving documents to 
> > Historic.
> 
> There seem to be a number of these housekeeping tasks that have almost 
> no benefit to the individual, have increasing costs and ever longer-term 
> commitments and thus, not surprisingly, don't get done on a regular 
> basis. Promotion and demotion of standards are prime examples, reviewing 
> is another.
> 
> Besides appealing to community spirit, other organizations deal with 
> that by deputizing individuals that get recognized for doing this type 
> of work in general, in one way or the other. This can take the "New 
> York's Strongest" (Dept. of Sanitation) or the "XYZ 
> secretary" approach.
> 
> In many cases, people do unpleasant or boring or no-immediate-reward 
> tasks in hope of getting promoted later - this is why I suggested WG 
> secretaries earlier and maybe why having elected IESG secretaries or the 
> IETF Dept. of Public Works ("just leave your old standards at the curb") 
> might be needed.

Have you seen draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00?  It proposes something along
these lines.

John

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