It's always weird to me when people in the IETF try to socially model what onlookers will think about our various actions. As Paul Hoffman says, most people won't even notice this change. The reason to do it would be to be correct, not to avoid errata or send a signal to anyone. It's not obligatory that we do this, but it seems fine.
Personally, I don't pay any attention at all to how .us is managed, so this is the first I've heard of it, and I'm glad for the information, although I would also have been fine if I hadn't gotten it. I suspect that that would be the general reaction of anyone else if we did this. So if someone wants to do this, why argue with them? Seems like a waste of time (he says, arguing back). > On 20 Dec 2025, at 03:23, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > It appears that Paul Wouters <[email protected]> said: >> I agree. It is clear the IETF doesn’t dictate policy for .us so marking the >> document historic would send the proper signal for that. And would stop any >> further people from > > If we'd done that in 1999 it would have made sense. But we didn't, and now it > is > 25 years later. IF we change it now, people who see it will assume something > has > changed about the way .US works in the past 25 years, even though nothing has. > > The original message in this thread said it "does not reflect current > practices > for this domain" although in fact most of what it describes still works. You > may > not have known that we Locality Administrators still exist, but we do. > >> creating errata which, whether correct or not, are distracting and useless >> work. > > In about 15 seconds, we could have said OK, hold for document update (which > will > never happen) and avoided this entire discussion. As Paul H noted, anyone can > file errata on anything, so that's not much of an argument. > > I really do not understand why people are so determined to spend time on this. > > R's, > John > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
