On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Fred Baker wrote:
I am very concerned about the accumulation of tombstones forever,
though. If we don't want to accumulate draft versions forever, what
makes tombstones different? I would far rather age them out after
some interval, such as six months.
I don't feel strong about this issue either way.
I will observe that from the point of view of the Secretariat, if they
don't keep I-Ds around forever they probably should not keep tombstones
around forever either, which really only means I don't see the problem
they are solving by keeping them.
Keeping them around forever is a role filled nicely by the archiving
mirrors (although this presupposes incrementing the version number if a
revision is submitted).
Certainly, a tombstone should be removed if a revision is submitted,
which would be a change to the new rules as documented.
Jim