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Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Sun, 12 July 2015 17:55 UTC

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From: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
To: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 19:36 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I respectfully suggest that, just as IEEE and ISO periodically reconfirm
> standards, this important IAB/IESG RFC 1984 should be minimally
> changed and re-published ASAP.
> In my own experience, most non-IETF literate computer people tend
> to dismiss very old RFCs as no longer relevant.

I disagree. Publishing an update signals that our opinion has evolved. It
hasn't, even if the technology has evolved to make software the focus
rather than hardware. Besides, this kind of document is a huge rathole, and
I don't believe any minimal changes would be worth the hassle.

Yoav


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