Re: I-D Renewal

It appears that Carsten Bormann  <[email protected]> said:
>On 2026-04-01, at 10:11, Julian Reschke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's the point, though. People frequently make these content-free updates manually to avoid expiry.
>> 
>> Which is a bad idea.
>
>I don’t know that.
>
>To me, a content-free update means that there are still authors who care, but nothing substantive happened.
>That is useful information (and not necessarily a bad thing; a document may be stalling for administrative reasons).

To repeat something suggested many times before, keep the six month expiry (or perhaps rename it to
"inactive") but provide a simple way for the author to reset the timer for another six months and
make it active again.  That preserves the signal without the identical redundant drafts.

Either that or perhaps when someone sneers at an expired draft, privately think, well, that was dumb,
and move on.

R's,
John