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

[Carsten Bormann]

On Dec 16 2004, at 18:13 Uhr, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2,

Ah good, I did.

     o  Usage.  A standard that is widely used should probably be left
        alone (better it should be advanced, but that is beyond the scope
        of this memo).

Case closed (talking about 1618).

Now Bill (the author) and I (and whoever else is into that corner of 
the technology attic) probably should start talking about whether to 
put in work to advance it.
(This should have been done in 1999.)

Gruesse, Carsten