Name: draft-klensin-newtrk-antiques-01
Title: Valuable Antique Documents: A Model for Advancement
State: Active
Authors: John Klensin
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-09-24
RFC 2026 and some of its predecessors require that Proposed and Draft
Standards either advance in grade within a reasonable period of time or
that they expire and be moved to Historic. That procedure has never been
followed on a systematic basis. A new procedure has been proposed that
would make that action easier for protocols that have not gotten any real
acceptance. In the interest of symmetry, fairness, and an orderly attic, it
is worth noting that there are a number of protocol descriptions which have
been at less than Full Standard level for a long time but which have proven
their value by the traditional criteria of multiple interoperable
implementations This document provides a procedure for upgrading such
documents to Full Standards without creating an unreasonable burden on
authors purely to meet the needs of procedural rituals or placing an
unreasonable load on groups charged with performing other tasks in the
IETF.
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