Hi Kim I hope this email finds you well. The messages below were forwarded to me by Eberhard. I am wondering whether the suggestion to develop a principled understanding to mark informational documents as historic would affect the nature of RFC 1591? It's my understanding that, in this context, historic means obsolete or outdated standards that are no longer recommended. Best regards, Alejandra ******************************************* Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. And live like it's Heaven on Earth. ******************************************* On 2025-12-18 23:02, Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
There are RFCs from that period that need less misunderhistoricalizing than others, so we need to be very careful in this regard.
el
On 2025-12-18 22:37, Kim Davies wrote:
Hi,
Quoting mohamed.boucadair@orange.com on Thursday December 18, 2025:
The processing of the errata below triggered a discussion with Paul about moving this RFC to historic.
The RFC was foundational at early days, but it obviously includes historical data and does not reflect current practices for this domain, let alone that this is handled by national bodies.
Unless I'm hearing good reasons to not tag the document as Historic, I will be starting a status change process early next year.
While it is hard to argue that this document is historical, this is is one of many documents that were essentially snapshots of IANA procedure from that era, principally authored by IANA personnel. While today IANA may publish such procedural documents in other forms, such as on our website, this is from a time when publishing an RFC with Informational status was the norm.
I would suggest rather than singling out this document in isolation for this treatment, we should develop a principled understanding of whether informational documents of this nature should be marked as historic, and then reclassifying status consistently across all of them.
kim
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