Re: [newtrk] Last Call comments on draft-ietf-newtrk-decruft-experiment-01.txt

["C. M. Heard" <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Eliot Lear wrote:
> As it is the port number database is a mess.  Not our job to fix
> that, but I would like to see the IANA update what information
> they envision providing when they get around to cleaning it up
> so we don't make the later cleanup effort harder than need be.  
> Especially since right now decruft is a special case that would
> require special handling regarding references.

Why is decruft a special case that requires special handling
regarding references?  What Harald A. and I have been advocating is
NOT treating it any differently that anything else.  For MIB work we
came to the agreement that updated MIB documents would not cause the
IANA to update the references in the SMI numbers database;  rather,
the references would point to the document associated with the
initial allocation.  As far as I know everything else is handled
that way, and I don't see why decruft should be an exception.

//cmh

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