Re: [Ltru] Shelf life of data (was: Re: Question)

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin <jefsey at jefsey dot com> wrote:

>> People have been quoting RFC 822, which is 23 years old, on this
>> list.  Even though it has been updated by RFC 2822, obviously many of
>> the basic philosophies and terminology still apply.
>
> I do not fully understand how the point applies here. What we decided
> in 1984 and which still makes the today namespace was in line with
> fundamental principles (root name concept). It will certainly last for
> ever as intrisic to a name space.

Your point was that a good many things from the past no longer function,
or function only partly, in today's world.  My point was that some
things from the past still function just fine.  We are both right.

>> There's nothing magic about 10 years.
>
> Nothing. In real life you need to take decisions. When you need
> something to be applied, you need a good mnemonic. It also turns out
> from experience that a decade seems to be the absolecense cycle of the
> technology itself.

It depends on the technology.  Some technologies, like laser video
disks, take much less than a decade to become obsolescent.  Some last
much, much longer.  Ten years is not carved in stone.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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