[rfc-dist] RFC 4450 on Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents

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        RFC 4450

        Title:      Getting Rid of the Cruft: 
                    Report from an Experiment in Identifying 
                    and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents 
        Author:     E. Lear, H. Alvestrand
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       March 2006
        Mailbox:    lear at cisco.com, 
                    harald at alvestrand.no
        Pages:      11
        Characters: 23822
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-newtrk-decruft-experiment-03.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4450.txt

This memo documents an experiment to review and classify Proposed
Standards as not reflecting documented practice within the world
today.  The results identify a set of documents that were marked as
Proposed Standards that are now reclassified as Historic.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.

This document is a product of the New IETF Standards Track Discussion
Working Group of the IETF.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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