On 1/28/2016 4:24 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
>ps. With respect to archiving, the IETF in fact does not do museum-level
long-term protection of its data. Nor should it. But it/should/ plug its output
into a place that does. Museum-quality archive is an entirely different animal
from daily crash protection, which of course the IETF does do.
Heather can talk you about that; we have made some progress in doing just that.
Jari,
Yes, I've heard that Heather is indeed pursuing long-term archival for RFCs.
That's good, but not sufficient. That series is a tiny fraction of the
material that should be preserved according to museum-quality standards.
The IETF community produces very large quantities of other material,
including Internet Drafts, mailing list messages, and web pages.
All of these also should be preserved. Folk doing research need source
materials about processes, not just (successful) results.
d/