- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:23:59 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy T. Fielding: >[Koen Holtman:] >> Correcting an error in my own message: RFC1945 is not even `best >> current practice', it ended up being `informational'. This gives it >> even less legislative power. To quote RFC1602: >> >> An "Informational" specification is published for the >> general information of the Internet community, and does >> not represent an Internet community consensus or >> recommendation. > >And, as I said before, that is irrelevant. There is no legislative >power in any IETF specs, even full standards. They have no legislative power in the literal sense, but people who ignore part of an IETF spec _do_ tend to get labeled as criminals. All I've been saying is that AOL's `crime' is not as big as it was made out to be. And yes, the status of the RFC they ignored part of _is_ relevant to this argument. >.....Roy Koen.
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