[ih] Karl's post from Friday: Re: Interop as part of Internet History

[Andrew G. Malis]

Here's an example of a recent "historically oriented" Informational RFC:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8700.html . Vint contributed section 3.2.

This one was published under the auspices of the IAB, but I believe the
current Independent Submissions Editor, Adrian Farrel, would be quite open
to similar RFCs. If you would like to sound out Adrian before actually
starting any writing, you can reach him at  rfc-ise at rfc-editor.org . Also
see https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/independent/ and
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4846.txt for some process guidelines.

Cheers,
Andy


On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:34 AM Brian Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> "historic" tends to mean "obsolete" as an RFC label. They could just be
> labelled "informational" l think. But there are other issues (no photos,
> for example).
>
> Regards
>     Brian
>     (via tiny screen & keyboard)
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 22:21 vinton cerf via Internet-history, <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> > good question. the independent RFC stream is pretty open; historic is
> > usually with reference to a protocol so it would likely be considered a
> > re-interpretation of the intent of the term. Regardless of the label, I
> > don't see why a historical account could not be an independent stream
> > submission.
> > v
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:10 AM dave walden via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Can a historical RFC be an original document written today about ih
> > > history more generally than about earlier RFCs?  If so, that sounds
> good
> > > to me as long as the existence of the RFC series on the web is stable.
> > > If not, creating such a series with appropriate indexing and guidelines
> > > seems like a good idea to me.
> > >
> > > On 9/14/2020 4:31 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> > > > What about publishing as historical RFCS?
> > > >
> > > >
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