Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2008-01-18 17:13, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> On 17-Jan-2008, at 18:50, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>>>   Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub-
>>>   series of Informational RFCs.
>>
>> Namely:
>>
>>>   The sub-series of FYIs and
>>>   BCPs are comprised of "Informational documents" in the sense of the
>>>   enumeration above, with special tagging applied.
>>
>> That's certainly true of the FYI series (which I believe the
>> RFC Editor regards as dormant today).
> 
> For what it's worth, there's a document in the dnsop queue which the wg
> intends to send up the tree for publication as fyi, once past wg last
> call. So the series might be dormant today, but there's a reasonable
> chance it might snort in its sleep and roll over in due course.

I've always wondered what the designation "for your information" adds
to an RFC that is already labelled "informational".

   Brian

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