They don’t need to be deleted if you include them deliberately. There is no 
prohibition on citing such RFCs for your own documents historical background.

Joe

> On Nov 29, 2018, at 4:06 AM, Stewart Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> But, always worth including a "do be deleted" note to the reviewers to stop 
> then all sending in feedback about the nits failure.
> 
> Stewart
> 
> 
>> On 27/11/2018 20:42, Joe Touch wrote:
>> FWIW:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2018-11-27 12:22, Ron Bonica wrote:
>>> 
>>> Fred,
>>> 
>>> If the NFSv2 and iPERF issues are not blocking, I would like to omit them. 
>>> The following are rational:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> - Mechanically, it is difficult to reference an RFC that has been obsoleted 
>>> in an internet draft. The NIT checker complains           bitterly.
>>  
>> Those complaints are warnings only to help those who cite such documents 
>> inadvertently; you can simply ignore them. (I do all the time - esp. for 
>> historical discussions that cite early versions of newer RFCs or historical 
>> standards).
>>  
>> Joe
>> 
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