Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

> Somehow I doubt this will work. Nobody's going to try to scam a trade press
> person with an old I-D; they'll just file a new one (it's not exactly hard,
> right?) and use that.
nah.  they'll just tell the trade press person that the proposal was submitted
to IETF.  as far as I can tell, in about half of the cases where someone
tells the press that, there really is nothing resembling such a proposal.