Hi -
RFC 2026 section 6.2 says, among other things:
When a standards-track specification has not reached the Internet
Standard level but has remained at the same maturity level for
twenty-four (24) months, and every twelve (12) months thereafter
until the status is changed, the IESG shall review the viability of
the standardization effort responsible for that specification and the
usefulness of the technology. Following each such review, the IESG
shall approve termination or continuation of the development effort,
at the same time the IESG shall decide to maintain the specification
at the same maturity level or to move it to Historic status....
Is the intent of this that the WG should be reviewed (it talks about the
"standardization effort") or that the documents' status should be
reviewed (since it talks about changing the specification to historic)?
Heh. I had forgotten about that section. Somehow, I suspect that the
IESG rarely (if ever) does this review. I'm sure we would have all
heard about it more often by now if they had. There are a zillion
Proposed Standards that are languishing well after their two years.