Re: Draft Review Request - IRTP IANA Considerations

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 06 January 2011 15:56 UTC

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From: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
Subject: Re: Draft Review Request - IRTP IANA Considerations
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:01:46 -0800
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On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:00 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com> wrote:

> 06.01.2011 10:03, Joe Touch wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/5/2011 9:36 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:
>> ...
>>>>> Maybe there is no doubt that this protocol should be Historic - so
>>>>> could you
>>>> please sponsor the publication of this document as RFC?
>>>> 
>>>> There us also neither a need nor a utility. Is there some other reason
>>>> you ate
>>>> trying so hard to get an RFC published?
>> >
>>> If you mean IRTP IANA Considerations, I have asked to withdraw it. Now I
>>> propose tsvwg-irtp-to-historic-00. Moreover, I think that would be OK
>>> for RDP too.
>> 
>> This too has no need nor utility.
>> 
>> They're experimental. They're outdated and not in use. They're not being replaced with anything. There's no point in doing *anything* associated with *any* of these protocols (IRTP, NETBLT, RDP).
> But there will be no harm if we mark them as Historic. That would just indicate that they are deprecated.

The harm is the time and resources you're wasting on what really does look like a desperate attempt to write an RFC - any RFC. 

You need to explain why these protocols *need* to be deprecated, and why that has to happen now, *except* as a way to stop you from chasing useless IANA support for these protocols. 

Joe
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