Lloyd Wood wrote:
Given that a large number of drafts, including even
draft-bradner-submission-rights-00.txt
currently end in a boilerplate saying copyright "(year)"
or an out-of-date year because the boilerplate has been cut and pasted
from a previous draft, it would be impossible to rely on the
information that you propose. Draft authors aren't generally awfully
hot on proofing such details.
The IETF has mailing list records, where draft submissions are
announced and ideas are recorded. Isn't that sufficient?
FWIW, the contents of the draft aren't typically mailed; only the
abstract and title.
Drafts are that - drafts, and are intended to disappear. If there is
information in them that needs archiving, it either gets issued as an
RFC (which is archived at the date of issue of the RFC), or can easily
be documented by other mechansims, e.g., in published papers, personal
laboratory notebooks, or technical reports. IDs are not tech reports.
Joe