Well.
Could the IESG then please answer the following simple question...?
"If HTTP/1.1 (as defined in RFC2616) would be submitted today for
publication as Proposed Standard, would it be accepted?"
If no, shouldn't the IESG revoke the current status of "Draft Standard",
and declare it as "historic" (as per RFC2026, Section 6.2)?
(that is, the documented standards process clearly isn't the *current*
standards process, thus it seems funny to me that the IESG claims BCPs
to be the last word when in fact one of the most successful protocols on
this planet doesn't comply to them).
Best regards, Julian
