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Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Fortunately, both of these problems have already been essentially solved, though in slightly differing contexts. This appears to be a classic distributed database update problem, with well-known and obvious solutions. However, the issue is how best to solve the problem within the context of DNS and the realities of competing registries. The easiest solution is when there is a central trusted database that manages all synchronization issues, and indeed, a popular implementation discussed on the mailing list was to just use a commercial database package, run by some trusted third party like the IANA, to handle inter-registry synchronization.