--On Monday, May 06, 2013 04:35 -0400 Olaf Kolkman <o...@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> Personally I hope that RFC 6410 has the effect that we, as a > community, get serious about promoting our proposed standards, > or obsolete them. > > I wonder how many standards got promoted after 6410 was > published. According to my rough count (well, not that rough), the number of RFCs numbered above 6410 that represent full Standards is zero. I note that DKIM is now in Last Call for promotion without revision; if it succeeds, it would be the first. RFC 6410 was published in October 2011. Between, e.g., October 2009 and May 2011, seven documents were published as Internet Standards (RFCs 5652, 5730 - 5734, and 6152). Because of the five documents in the EPP series, that is not quite as large a count as one would expect but even if one counts that as only three, three is larger than zero. That is definitely not a comparison on which I'd want to make any statistical assertions, but it suggests that 6410 has not been an overwhelming success is promoting documents. john