On 3/3/11 8:18 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 3/3/2011 7:11 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: >> The first point, to echo Andrew Sullivan, is that even if a protocol >> is in use >> on the public Internet, it is not always easy to detect. > ... >> The second point is that enterprise uses and other private network >> uses are >> still valid uses. The fact that a protocol may be used only inside a >> virtual >> private network, or only inside a corporate data center, or in only >> within a >> military facility, does NOT mean that it is not used. Such limited use >> is still >> valid use and should not result in our declaring something obsolete. > > > +1 > > Declaration of historic needs to be based on affirmative data. The > declaration is actually only important to make for protocols that are > known to be problematic. > > Issuing a declaration for mere non-use is a matter of convenience, not > need, IMO.
And, further, probably it would not be worth the trouble to investigate whether a protocol is not actually used (proving a negative is hard). Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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