At 03:31 PM 9/20/00 -0700, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> There needs to be an I-D archive.
1. Get together with everyone else who agrees with you and buy a machine
and a net connection.
2. Write a script to get all new I-Ds (easy to do via automated
processing of ietf-announce).
3. Make them freely available to all.
4. Post a note about the archive once a month to the IETF list.
Most of this has already been done. See:
http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/
However:
A. I'm not sure if it was ever announced to this list
B. It's not entirely clear that expired drafts don't expire at this
location, until you hunt around a bit.
C. There's no explicit permanence to this location. It could come and go,
though there's no immediate indication that this is the case.
It would be useful to have a semi-blessed location that one could be
confident will be there five years from now, for all of the reasons in the
"Cool URIs Don't Change" essay
(http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI). Perhaps this is just a matter of
the Roxen folks committing to keeping this as a permanent resource, and/or
perhaps registering an appropriate domain such that it can be permanent.
Rob