RFC 4450 · INFORMATIONAL · 2006

Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents

Overview

RFC 4450, “Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents”, is an Informational document published in March 2006 by E. Lear, H. Alvestrand. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo documents an experiment to review and classify Proposed Standards as not reflecting documented practice within the world today. The results identify a set of documents that were marked as Proposed Standards that are now reclassified as Historic. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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