[rfc-i] "obsoleted by" in RFC 5143

[Danny McPherson]

On Nov 19, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Andrew G. Malis wrote:

> Bob and Julian,
> 
> I can fill you in on that one, as the primary guilty party.
> 
> When we did the work in the pwe3 working group on this protocol, even
> though what we standardized was RFC 4842, there were substantial
> pre-standard deployments of the original early drafts, which can
> happen when the running code precedes the rough consensus :-).
> 
> So the agreement we reached in the WG was that we would publish 4842
> as the officially blessed PS for future implementations to use, and
> then go back and publish the original work as historic, just to
> document what was running in the field at that time. That resulted in
> 5143, which was indeed obsoleted by 4842. We made that pretty clear in
> the abstract to 5143.


As the guilty (co)chair who brokered this AND other instaces
in PWE3, I concur with Andy.

-danny