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[saag] Re: [rfc-i] Re: RFCs vs Standards

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [rfc-i] Re: [saag] RFCs vs Standards
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On 2024-12-10, at 13:52, John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org <mailto:40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org>> wrote: 
> • Internet-drafts are obviously "permanent and readily available", I don’t see why that is debated. For registries wanting RFCs there is “RFC required”. I am against any registry saying that "permanent and readily available" internet-drafts are NOT OK, but pointing to a website outside of the IETF is…

On 12/10/24, 2:49 PM, "Carsten Bormann" <cabo@tzi.org <mailto:cabo@tzi.org>> wrote:
> This.
> There really can’t be any discussion on the facts here.

Except that the boilerplate in every internet draft says "It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as 'work in progress'" and some people have a problem with using a work in progress as the defining reference for an IANA registry. I think the solution to that is to fix the boilerplate somehow.

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