Hi Fred - > > If I can have two separate files (a tombstone and a subsequent new file > version) that have the same name, as described in the recent announcement, > I am going to have to figure out a trigger that will tell me that I need to > re-download the file. Incrementing the number also screws up a common operation for authors: is the internet-draft that I'm citing the current one? With the new algorithm, a search for a +1 version will yield a hit and I have to go look in that file. > the context of the above. If the "tombstone" is literally as described, it > would be far more space/search/etc efficient for us to have the tombstone > consist of an added text line in a file indicating that the named draft > expired on a certain date, and keep separate files for the active internet > drafts. It seems to me that this makes it simpler to maintain a mirror and > to find temporary documents. > A tombstone jail containing that information would be preferable in my view to mixing them all together. Regards, Carl