Re: [newtrk] Re: IESG comments on draft-ietf-newtrk-decruft-experiment-02.txt

[David Kessens <[e-mail]>]

Joe,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:15:15PM -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
> I disagree; IMO, the work this represents helps move the chaff out of
> the way so that the wheat - old wheat and new wheat - is easier to find.
> Organizing the wheat so it's useful is just as productive - sometimes
> moreso - as generating new wheat.

The free market (and open source community as well) is way quicker and
more efficient in determining whether something is historic/obsolete
than the IETF. People vote with their pocket book and simply abandon
the protocol when it no longer makes sense. I see very little value
for us to spend a large amount of time to make a standard officially
historic years *after* it is already widespread knowledge that a
(proposed) standard is indeed historic/obsolete.

David Kessens
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