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RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 06:04:09
Looks good to me!

Best regards,
Pasi

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of
Eggert Lars (Nokia-NRC/Espoo)
Sent: 27 October, 2009 11:29
To: IETF discussion list
Subject: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

Hi,

I'm proposing a change to the ID boilerplate in order to save some
lines on the first page. The current text says:

  Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
  Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups.  Note that
  other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
  Drafts.

  Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
months
  and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
any
  time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
  material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."

  The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
  http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.

  The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
  http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.

  This Internet-Draft will expire on <date>.

The first URL was broken since the IETF web site redesign, but nobody
has noticed.  That - to me - is a pretty strong indication that nobody
has been using it. (It is now fixed.)

The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which
are defunct in some way (don't respond, DNS name doesn't resolve,
contains stale content, etc.) Again, nobody has been noticing this.

Consequently, the proposal is to shorten the boilerplate text above to
the following, saving five lines:

  Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
  Task Force (IETF).  Note that other groups may also distribute
  working documents as Internet-Drafts.  The list of current
  Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/.

  Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
months
  and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
any
  time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
  material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."

  This Internet-Draft will expire on <date>.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Lars
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