On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Fred Baker wrote: I am very concerned about the accumulation of tombstones forever, though. If we don't want to accumulate draft versions forever, what makes tombstones different? I would far rather age them out after some interval, such as six months. I don't feel strong about this issue either way. I will observe that from the point of view of the Secretariat, if they don't keep I-Ds around forever they probably should not keep tombstones around forever either, which really only means I don't see the problem they are solving by keeping them. Keeping them around forever is a role filled nicely by the archiving mirrors (although this presupposes incrementing the version number if a revision is submitted). Certainly, a tombstone should be removed if a revision is submitted, which would be a change to the new rules as documented. Jim