Re: I-D Renewal

Carsten Bormann wrote on 05/04/2026 19:34:
>>> 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).

without wanting to sound contrarian, I'm in favour of ID expiry in 
principal. The reason is that without expiry of some form, the IETF has 
no garbage disposal mechanism.

The IETF should not go down the road of being an infinite garbage 
repository.

Nick