[Old-standards] welcome to old-standards

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Welcome to the old-standards list, and thanks for participating in this 
> experiment.  This list is for discussion of old protocols/specifications that 
> either should be removed from the books, or perhaps advanced.  I'd like to 
> begin discussion in a few days, to give people a chance to sign up for the 
> mailing list.  In the meantime you might want to take a look at the existing 
> proposed and draft standards (which is where I propose we start) and see if 
> you see one that you know should be advanced or retired.  After the next 
> kickoff message we'll need to see what sorts of candidates we have, and then 
> organize to determine which ones to deal with first.

Well, I took a quick stab and looked at Draft Standards and based on 
that did a little bit of other musing as well..

Draft Standards:

RFC 1356 	Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode
RFC 1559 	DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions
RFC 1575 	An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473)
RFC 1629 	Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet
RFC 1694 	Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2
RFC 1762 	The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP)
RFC 2067 	IP over HIPPI
RFC 2355 ?	TN3270 Enhancements
RFC 2741 ? 	Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
RFC 2742 ?	Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents
       (is this stuff being used at all??)

  - is BOOTP classified as crufty?  There's no new work on that for 10 
years, but it's still in marginal use somewhere :)
  - what about other more or less crufty interface types, like token 
ring, FDDI, etc. ?
  - CLNP is probably mostly a done deal, maybe IPX and friends as well?

This gets back to the issue how much we want to decruft simply plain 
OLD protocols which are still in use somewhere, but for which no new 
work has been done in the last 5-10 years.  Should those be crufted?

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings