Lars Eggert wrote:
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:
...
Again: can we please stop making changes to things that aren't broken?
BR, Julian
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