Re: ISSUE-53: mediatypereg - suggest closing on 2009-09-03

On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2009, at 09:00, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> b) we still should obsolete RFC 2854 in the RFC Index.
>
>
> That seems like the right thing to do.
>
> Can an RFC be obsoleted without publishing a new RFC? If not, can  
> the new RFC simply have a single reference pointing to the W3C space?

An RFC can be moved to "Historic" status (the formal term for  
"obsolete") without the need for a superseding RFC. See RFC2026 "The  
Internet Standards Process", particularly sections 4.2.4 and 6.4.

Regards,
Maciej

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt

Received on Friday, 21 August 2009 08:01:50 UTC