I totally support your suggestion. I think it is best if the RFCs mention the specific name of the WG that created them instead.
-Shahram >-----Original Message----- >From: Fred Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:17 PM >To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Network Working Group > > > From your draft IESG Charter: > >>Network Working Group > >40 years ago a group of researchers was funded by DARPA to study >packet-based communications, one part of which was the Network Working >Group. Part of this group has since become the IRTF's End2End Research >Group, and the rest of the functions have devolved on the IAB >and the IETF. >The Network Working Group, as such, has not been functional >for nearly 20 >years. > >I personally would like to see us stop attributing documents >to them. The >world has long since moved on, and those who don't recognize it date >themselves. > >
