RE: Revising full standards

[Bob Braden <braden at ISI.EDU>]

At 12:34 PM 12/6/2007, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> The numbering is problematic for many reasons, people have difficulty 
> keeping two sets of numeric identifiers straight. If you want me to refer 
> to something other than RFC-822 you have to give me something more 
> memorable to both myself and the audience I am attempting to communicate to.
>
> STD23 does not do it for me


I agree.  Note that there are quite a number of mnemonics assigned in 
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html#STDbySTD.

> If you want to introduce an alternative identifier that people are likely 
> to use use something of the form IETF-SMTP-2008

Not bad.

Bob Braden



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