> On Dec 23, 2025, at 21:32, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Then let me rephrase it.  What bad things have happened in the past 25 years? 
>  What's different now?

Dad, my room is always a mess, why should I clean it up now?

Technical debt is real.

> 
>> What I said:
> 
>>> I think my concern is reasonable that if we do change it, people will 
>>> misinterpret "historic" as something has changed about us Locality 
>>> Administrators and will imagine that the 3LDs I've been running for 30 
>>> years might go away.  At least one person in this discussion has said as 
>>> much.

If anything, this is an argument to clearly show the IETF is not a stakeholder 
in this anymore and to facilitate to remove that confusion.

> They're not who I'm worried about.  It's "https://co.seneca.ny.us can't 
> possibly be a real URL and [email protected] isn't a valid e-mail address" 
> from people who saw something in The Register.

Readers from The Registry don’t have change control over locality domains.

>  It already occasionally happens; so let's not do something with no benefit 
> to anyone which is likely to make it worse.

There is benefit as some already indicated. We are just putting different 
weights on the arguments and disagree. I believe doing the right thing 
outweighs doing the wrong thing out of fear that what should be knowledgeable 
and responsible people, would accidentally start doing the wrong thing. 

> For the unpteeth time, this dog has been sleeping for 25 years.  Leave it 
> alone.

Again, technical debt is real. At some point it will bite you. We are 
responsible to try and not publish outdated information without marking it as 
such.

Paul
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