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Re: Question on: draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2013-update-04.txt
- To: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
- Subject: Re: Question on: draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2013-update-04.txt
- From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:24:32 +0200
- Cc: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>, "Bill Fenner (E-mail)" <fenner@research.att.com>, "John Flick (E-mail)" <johnf@rose.hp.com>, "Margaret Wasserman (E-mail)" <margaret@thingmagic.com>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:48:41AM +0200, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> In document draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2013-update-04.txt we can
> read that it obsoletes RFRCs 2013 and 2454. As a result,
> RFC2454 will become historic (at least that is what sect
> 3.1.2 suggests/states).
>
> I then see:
>
> --
> -- { udp 6 } was defined as the ipv6UdpTable in RFC2454's
> -- IPV6-UDP-MIB. This RFC obsoletes RFC 2454, so { udp 6 } is
> -- obsoleted.
> --
>
> And wonder if it would not be better to pick up the definitions
> from RFC2454 and change the status to eitehr deprecated or
> obsoleted. That way we create a machine readable form of that
> status, whereas otherwise that is kind of vague.
I do not think this is practical. It might work with the IPV6-UDP-MIB
since it is small, but in the general case, we will end up producing
very large documents with lots of obsolete/deprecate and actually
duplicate definitions. And people who still read RFC 2454 will not
notice anyway...
/js
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