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

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

Carsten,

please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, and 
see if it answers your question.... this has been a major discussion 
source....

                      Harald


--On 16. desember 2004 15:40 +0100 Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org> wrote:

> So what does HISTORIC mean?
> -- bad protocol (advice is to get rid of it), as in RIPv1
> -- bad specification, but the protocol is alright
> -- an underlying/related technology is dying out slowly
> -- an underlying/related technology is used mainly in parts of the world
> many IETFers don't visit that often
> -- the market is stable, so there won't be new implementations
> -- existing open source implementations are doing well, so there won't be
> new implementations
> -- there is unlikely to be new development about this standard, as in IPv4