Re: I-D Renewal

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01-Apr-26 21:11, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Am 01.04.2026 um 09:00 schrieb Rob Sayre:
>> Julian Reschke <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>   > Please don't unless you're actually making changes to the draft's
>> contents.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That's the point, though. People frequently make these content-free
>> updates manually to avoid expiry.
> 
> Which is a bad idea.

+1

> 
>> This part can be automated.
> 
> Which makes it worse.

+1

> 
>> An easier option is just removing expiry from I-Ds . They do not in fact
>> expire anyway, so it's just a ceremony.

+1

> 
> Yes, but that's a different thing.

Just to note that this anachronism is one of the targets of draft-carpenter-gendispatch-anachronisms, which has been dispatched for possible future consideration by PROCON.

    Brian
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