From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 06:43:32 CDT
In <86660xieef.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net> Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> writes:
>Do we yet hold the IETF record for the longest active working group
>not to produce as much as an RFC?
No, the NNTPEXT working group started before we did, and still has not
produced its main RFC (though it did produce a subsidiary one on existing
extensions).
And NNTPEXT was only supposed to be documenting current practice (though
it does go a little bit further, for example in the direction of UTF-8).
Our charter explicitly allows us to introduce a few new features.
Another example is DRUMS, whose total lifespan it probably more than ours,
and that too was merely intended to document existing practice.
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