Re: [newtrk] IESG comments on ISD proposal

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Wed, 11 May 2005 09:36 UTC

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Bruce Lilly wrote:
> On Tue May 10 2005 11:48, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
...
> 
> More to the point, the original claim, viz. "the Internet runs mainly on
> Proposed Standards", still hasn't been substantiated.  Even if you ignore
> the same *type* of process, there is no way that IP is a mere "Proposed
> Standard".

RFC 791 (STD) is updated by RFC 1349 (PS).
RFC 1349 is obsoleted by RFC 2474 (PS).

And so it goes wherever you look. Fortunately, we have running code
to save us.

    Brian



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