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

[Bob Braden]

  *> 
  *> If a non-trivial fraction of the putative-cruft documents are
  *> going to require this level of examination by the community, and
  *> then lead to the conclusion that it would be pretty easy to
  *> write a new document to clean up the specific mess, then my own
  *> inference would be that we have demonstrated that there are no
  *> quick fixes and that a rethinking of how we identify and
  *> document what is standard and what is not is really required.
  *> 
  *>      john

Indeed.  We should be concentrating on doing a better job in the
future, dealing with the great complexity of our standards documents,
e.g., with ISDs.

Bob Braden