I don't think it's meant to solve a concrete problem. Just to provide fixed definitions to make some IETF quarrels less painful, by providing semiauthoritative

I don't think it's meant to solve a concrete problem. Just to provide fixed definitions to make some IETF quarrels less painful, by providing semiauthoritative definitions of some words. Which is good. That lets people quarrel about the substance of something instead of digressing into quarreling about what terms mean.