From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 07:57:35 CDT
In <87661zn83h.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Publishing a standard which is _incompatible_ with actual practice is
>not a good idea at any time, and is specifically not in accordance
>with normal IETF procedure.
There is nothing wrong if the intent is to move things forward, to remove
obsolete baggage and to make way for further flexibility in the future.
But of course it must be done in such a way that the old can evolve into
the new, which is what we have tried to do.
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