[ih] Internet Draft: when and why exactly 6 months?

[Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim]

Craig Partridge wrote:

> I was involved in creating the 6 month expire rule was created, but I don't
> remember any of the details.  I know that the expiration was created to
> encourage working groups to make progress (by making IDs ephemeral, you had
> to either move forward, or have the ID die and, potentially, the WG terminate).
> As to why 6 months, I don't know.

thanks... 
was it around 1990-1992, since you were the USV AD then?


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