I don't think the issue is "weight" as much as it is the
rights to intellectual property contained within the I-D
(and here I mean intellectual property in the most general
sense of the term so as to include copyrights and also
other intellectual property rights).
At least that's where a good deal of the discussion seems
to have centered.
vint
At 09:06 AM 10/1/2000 -0700, Melinda Shore wrote:
There seems to be specific concern that if it were
the IETF archiving expired drafts it might be seen
as giving those documents some weight. But what if
some other body or organization were to do the same
thing?