www.watersprings.org is helpful, if you know the draft name. On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:46:13PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 14-jan-04, at 17:43, Fred Baker wrote: > > >It seems to me that there is a better approach to the above, at least > >in 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. > > >Thoughts? > > This is probably orthogonal to mirroring issues, but it sometimes > drives me mad when I have a draft filename but I can't find the draft > itself and/or its status. Two things could help in this area: > > - for all drafts, make it possible to determine the latest version > - for inactive drafts, supply some reference to the author(s) > > A good and simple way to do this would be to create a file that matches > the draft filename without the version number (would this be that > tombstone thingy you guys keep talking about?) and say something like > "version 34 was submitted 2003-04-05" or "version 00 was deleted > 1970-01-01" and copy the author's address section of the most recent > version. Authors can then supply a link to the intended permanent > resting place of the draft, if any, in this section. > > If keeping all those files around is problematic, copying the author's > address section into the I-D ACTION email message would also help a lot > as the announcements mailinglist is well-archived. >