[Old-standards] slowing down

[Spencer Dawkins]

> I'd like to start to discuss next steps.  As I mentioned above, I'd 
> like to send a note to the IETF containing the current list of 
> candidates to be removed, but we should be hitting all relevant 
> lists.  If you have a favorite (like telnet or token ring or 
> appletalk) please either contact them directly or let me know and I 
> will.

... umm, we did start this journey without a clear destination, so 
maybe others will see this another way, but if there's a deployed 
standard that is still in use, but no one on the IETF list knows about 
it, are we sure that we need to keep it on the list of standards?

I am sensitive to the possibility that people we don't know about us 
are following our standards with a ten-year lag, but I'm having a hard 
time imagining any impact, much less any negative impact, of moving 
such a (proposed) standard to historic. And it seems likely that if 
the standard is still being actively used in some parallel universe, 
it's at least as likely to have morphed into something we wouldn't 
recognize anyway from our specs, anyway.

So I'd say "sure" to the IETF list, and I'm assuming that the proposed 
protocol action(s) would be sent to IETF-announce, but maybe that's 
enough?

Other thoughts? ("maybe we don't have to search quite so exhaustively 
before recommending that a standard be considered for historic?")