Re: [tao-discuss] Retirement of the Tao

Niels ten Oever <mail@nielstenoever.net> Wed, 13 December 2023 14:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tao-discuss] Retirement of the Tao
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On 13-12-2023 15:02, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> I think it would be good to formally archive the final version. At the same time I don't think it would be good to publish it as a separate RFC, because that would then give it too much visibility.
> 
> I agree with this.
> 
> Since the IESG has to approve the Tao, this seems workable:
> 1. Have them issue a statement saying "he's dead, Jim" or whatever.
> 2. At the same time, ask Greg or his designee to remove public-facing links to the existing document so that it's not found any more.
> 3. Put a note at the top of the document saying this is dead, and pointing to the IESG statement.
> 

Thanks for this Rich. Just to be clear: do you think we need this RFC _and_ an IESG statement?

Or would this doc roughly do the work: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-tenoever-tao-retirement-00 (esp taking into account that this doc would obsolete RFC6722) ?

Best,

Niels
  

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