On Dec 31, 2011, at 5:29 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW, the definition of "Historic" is in RFC 2026,

That is *a* definition of "Historic", but it has been modified informally since 
RFC 2026 has been written. The IESG is quite aware of this problem and has 
steadfastly refused to update 2026 to bring it up to the current understanding 
of "Historic". Doing so would open many large cans of worms.

Proposal: ignore the "historic" label altogether and simply go to "should not 
be used in new applications and protocols". That way, you can word it as 
strongly as you want. Such a document can be a BCP, which has the same effect 
as a standard.

--Paul Hoffman

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