Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:37:24 -0400
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl(_at_)simonstl(_dot_)com>
Message-ID: <200009202134(_dot_)RAA21828(_at_)hesketh(_dot_)net>
| You seem to ignore the possibility that they could be worth keeping in a
| form other than RFCs.
Why? Or perhaps I mean, why in another form than RFCs which are RFC clones
in essentially all details (that is, I wasn't asking why someone might prefer
to also keep docs in some radically different form or medium).
| I don't think the world wants the RFC pool to grow
| _that_ rapidly,
You're worried about conserving RFC numbers? Why? If the information is
to be kept, let it be kept.
If we start keeping I-D's forever (publically available) then we will just
need to invent another doc series for draft drafts, that aren't to be
kept forever.
Perhaps the current problems are all a result of the (comparatively recent)
difficulty of getting stuff actually published as an RFC, compared to the
ease of I-D publication. If that is the real issue, then that might be
worth discussing, but just creating more archival doc series doesn't solve
anything at all.
kre