[rfc-i] RFC 5000 on Internet Official Protocol Standards
Bob Braden
braden at ISI.EDU
Wed May 21 14:25:49 PDT 2008
*>
*> o STD1 references Draft Standards and Proposed Standards, which an
*> "Internet Standard" (per RFC2026) is not allowed to do, but an
*> Informational doc can.
*>
*> o STD1 contains no normative language, and nothing one can claim
*> conformance to or implement. Instead, it is basically a roadmap
*> document (and roadmap RFCs are Informational).
*>
*>
*> --Olaf
Olaf,
In my world, an index/catalog is a unique kind of object, that does
not have to, and indeed probably cannot, follow the same rules as
the documents it indexes. It is a unique kind of beast. As in
Goeddels (sp?) theorem.
Oh well, let's quit and do something more useful.
Bob Braden
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