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

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> James M. Polk wrote:
>
>> I'm initially really surprised 1518/1519 is on this list. 
>
> Obviously, it's a bug. Of the Proposed Standards that the Internet
> runs on, those are among the most important. I believe this was
> pointed out on the old-standards list already, but it must have
> got lost.

Not really a bug. Note that the to-be-historic list does not mention 
this:

RFC1517       Applicability Statement for the Implementation of 
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)

This is the best document to use as a basis for respinning the concept 
of CIDR, AFAICS.  1518/1519 are full of address assignment etc. 
details which were out of date or inappropriate for a standards track 
document already 5 years ago.  There's very small amount of useful 
information to salvage from those.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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