Re: Revising full standards

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:43 AM +1300 Brian E Carpenter 
<brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It is only a patch.  If you do it, it is not clear to me what
> > the STD  number (still) accomplishes.
>
> It's a new way into the maze and I think it's worth doing
> quickly, since
> it doesn't misrepresent the formal standards process in any
> way. Ideally,
> www.rfc-editor.org/smtp and www.rfc-editor.org/STD10 would also
> take you straight there too. (Tools prototype?)

Of course, if "STD10" is a separate document, we are on the path 
to ISDs.   If it isn't, RFC 2026 and the application of STD 
numbers only to Full Standards takes a hit.

   john






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