On 2018 Nov 10 02:25:34, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 BF> Maybe we need an FTS-0000 where we define how it's supposed to work?

the FTAs are where that would be documented...

  FTA  FTSC Administrative Documents
  FTS  Fidonet Technical Standards
  FSP  Fidonet Standards Proposals
  FSC  Fidonet Reference Library (would be proposals)
  FRL  Fidonet Reference Library (old versions of updated standards or old
proposals)

as originally proposed the FRL would contain all old documents the FTSC has
archived... they may have been:
  - earlier versions of updated standards
  - earlier versions of updated proposals
  - old proposals not raised to a standard

basically, all older documents would end up in the FRLs at some point...

the flow of the process is basically:

       ->FTS-
      /      \
  FSP-        ->FRL (when updated or simply archived)
      \      /
       ->FSC-

old FTA documents could (should?) also be placed in the FRLs to try to maintain
a document history... that's what we tried to do with the FRL anyway... we lost
so many old documents back in the day because no one thought to maintain the
old ones for history... they have been very handy in numerous cases when they
have been needed...

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