At 12:07 27/09/00, Melinda Shore wrote:
Archival material is *extremely* important for
future research.
The archival material is the RFC --*only*--.
Just because the document isn't
for publication and cannot be used normatively
doesn't mean that it should be obliterated.
I would not want my old drafty Internet-Drafts
to be kept archivally, just as others have indicated
they don't want theirs kept around. Drafts are
just that -- drafts -- hence not appropriate
archival material.
Ran
rja(_at_)inet(_dot_)org