[Old-standards] Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

[Eliot Lear]

Margaret,

Thanks for your note.  Please see below for responses:

Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> 
>> RFC0885       Telnet end of record option
> 
> 
> This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that 
> connected to IBM mainframes...  It was used to indicate the end of a 
> 3270 datastream.  I don't know if it is still used in that fashion, but 
> Bob Moskowitz might know.

Thanks.  It sounds about right.  I'm sure tn3270 is out there and used 
but I don't know what options it uses.
> 
>> RFC1041       Telnet 3270 regime option
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what this was ever used for, but again Bob Moskowitz would 
> be a good person to ask if this is still in-use.

Right.

> 
>> RFC1269       Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway
>>               Protocol: Version 3
> 
> 
> Why would this be cruft?  The BGP4 MIB was just recently approved...

Good thing too.  Take a good look at 1269.  I don't think it would pass 
a MIB compiler test today.  If you approved the BGP4-MIB, ought not that 
have obsoleted this guy?
> 
>> RFC1518       An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR
>> RFC1519       Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address
>>               Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
> 
> 
> CIDR is still in-use and rather frequently discussed in other 
> documents.  Are there newer references  or something?

Yah.  Something slipped here.  One of these two docs is cruftier than 
the other, and while we don't have a newer reference, we're likely to 
cruftify one of them and recommend that the other be revised and advanced.


Eliot