On 1/28/16, 05:31, "ietf on behalf of Dave Crocker"
<ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
on behalf of dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:
That's good, but not sufficient. That series is a tiny fraction of the
material that should be preserved according to museum-quality standards.
Museum quality is a pretty high bar. I would prefer that the IETF
preserve materials to the extent we need to do our work, and let
historians and curators decide what (if anything) is worth preserving at
higher quality and reliability.
I recognize difference of opinion on the matter.
The IETF community produces very large quantities of other material,
including Internet Drafts, mailing list messages, and web pages.
It seems to me that I-Ds are an interesting case. They are a series of
documents whose stated purpose is to be ephemeral in order to promote
exchange of half-formed ideas. Preserving them for the ages seems to
undermine that intent.
I understand that ship may have sailed, though, given the number of places
one can find archived I-Ds on the ‘net.
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