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[OT] Internet standards (was: call function for times with different types)

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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).

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call function for times with different types 吳晞浩 <shwu.cs98@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 22:59 -0700
  Re: call function for times with different types "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-08-26 09:22 +0200
    Re: call function for times with different types "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-26 09:44 +0200
      Re: call function for times with different types "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-08-26 10:11 +0200
        Re: call function for times with different types "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-26 13:25 +0200
          Re: call function for times with different types Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-26 17:25 +0200
            [OT] Chinese given names (was: call function for times with different types) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-27 01:40 +0200
          Re: call function for times with different types Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-26 15:47 +0000
            [OT] Internet standards (was: call function for times with different types) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-26 18:22 +0200
  Re: call function for times with different types Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-26 14:56 +0200
  Re: call function for times with different types Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 13:39 -0700

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