Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: [OT] Internet standards (was: call function for times with different types) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:22:08 +0200 Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2447277.PWrZg0qSN9@PointedEars.de> References: <1c60d2a4-3634-4cae-ad31-dc2d38cc911c@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: solani.org 1409070129 10955 eJwFwQERADEIAzBLA9pyL2c84F/CEoZMf0IUuFy1LTtKAIsTc+4htB4zbKo9vZTHegpX3wMaYxD8 (26 Aug 2014 16:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:22:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.13.3 X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLPCFlcoBS/xJ2F07lHDCIePFKscfLxHDZdaf9UgDrjM0K5lO4X9nsg6Hl9rcxYv2Jjf5Q+RVM Cancel-Lock: sha1:9BxISmIhmmr+lT8DVkDRYFL17GI= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CX5rCt71CE/08wQXCxtAluDKbxpxUjO7STE7U4RTWD8D19XWh8iUNbDy06Eco= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:25735 Denis McMahon wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:25:05 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> It seems you are referring to RFC 1036 section 2.1.1. However, RFC 1036 >> is obsoleted by RFC 5536 and 5537, and RFC 5536 section 3.1.2 specifies: > > I think you'll find that until RFCs 5536 and 5537 are actually standards, > rather than 5 year old proposed standards, they don't obsolete 1036. Your logic is flawed and your research method is lacking. You will find that RFCs 5536, 5537, and 5322 are *Proposed* Standards and a *Draft* Standard, respectively – RFCs on the IETF Standards Track (not Internet standards yet; those have an STD number, too) –, and that, regardless of that, the former two *explicitly* obsolete RFC 1036 and the latter obsoletes RFC 2822. As such, they bear the informal significance of “quasi-standard” or “de-facto standard” – something to be observed if one is to avoid interoperability problems. It was about time in 2009, with the so-called “Son-of-RFC-1036” working draft being the implemented de-facto standard for Network News for the previous 9 years at least (it was the de-facto standard when I first used Usenet). -- PointedEars FAQ: | SVN: Twitter: @PointedEars2 | ES Matrix: Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.