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From:
"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Date:
22 Mar 2000 23:25:55 -0000
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Subject:
Re: Last Call: Root Name Server Operational Requirements to BCP
Robert Elz writes: > BCP docs usually have > nothing whatever to do with best, current, or practice, and never did. According to BCP 1, RFC 1818, by Jon Postel et al., the BCP documents ``describe best current practices for the Internet community.'' I've read several BCPs, and I don't recall any of them trying to deceive the reader as to what practices were current. The evaluation of ``best'' is often based on amazingly naive criteria, but that's a separate issue. Anyway, no matter what the history was, and no matter what's been published before, when you label something as ``current practice,'' you're telling readers that it's current practice. In this case, it certainly isn't current practice. ---Dan