[ih] Status of RFCs that were not IETF RFCs

[Brian E Carpenter]

Thanks Greg.

However I'd encourage everybody to sideline this issue until the RFC Editor system is no longer in its current interim status (an acting Series Editor) and we have a proper system in place for defining policy. At that point there'll be a community forum (a.k.a. the RFC Series WG) where this discussion can happen in a seemly way.

It can't possibly be urgent, since we are discussing RFCs over 35 years old.

Regards
    Brian

On 22-Jan-22 12:41, Greg Skinner via Internet-history wrote:
> I recently submitted a request to have RFC911’s status changed to Historic as a result of some things I found out about it during the course of the “first router” discussion here last fall.  The request has (unexpectedly) sparked some discussions about  how to handle the status of other RFCs that were issued before the current IETF standardization process was adopted.  In case you weren’t aware of these discussions, see the following links:
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> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-call/ZLhdZge4iRrpmgVSZdXI7EVeFow/ <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-call/ZLhdZge4iRrpmgVSZdXI7EVeFow/>
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rfc-interest/4k87_2fColpmnhfKYe8ywiYURxM/ <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rfc-interest/4k87_2fColpmnhfKYe8ywiYURxM/>
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> I thought I should call attention to these discussions since several participants of this list authored or edited RFCs that fall into this category and/or might be able to provide valuable input.
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> —gregbo
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