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Dave Katz <dkatz@juniper.net> Thu, 28 October 2010 19:47 UTC

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I stand corrected.

I assume that there is at least some hurdle to cross to publish a Historic RFC;  otherwise I could publish my grocery lists or something.  ;-)

--Dave

On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Dave Katz <dkatz@juniper.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> I don't think that there is any mechanism for an ID to achieve Historic
>> status (which is a misnomer in this case), though I'm not an IETF process
>> expert;  IDs are purged after six months.  If I understand correctly,
>> Historic status is used to classify older RFCs whose technology has been
>> abandoned or otherwise overtaken by events.  I don't believe there is any
>> mechanism by which this draft can be archived within the IETF.
> 
> A number of RFCs have been issued originally as Historic. The most
> recent three were RFC 6037, RFC 5806, and RFC 5773 for which the
> official announcements are here:
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=934&k2=8514&tid=1288292436
> https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=934&k2=7673&tid=1288292698
> https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=934&k2=7505&tid=1288292756
> 
> Donald
> 
>

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