On 12/28/20 3:26 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
Hiya,
On 28/12/2020 23:16, Michael Thomas wrote:
It would be good to leave enough source material for future
generations to know what happened. The best legacy
of the internet is that it makes that almost trivial.
Not sure about "best," but one of the major pros of usenet
and mail lists is ease of archiving. If there were a way to
do the same for e.g. github issue discussion (without being
dependent on github.com's owner de-jour), that'd be good. Is
there such? If so, could the IETF maintain one? And if not,
could we help archiving possible?
Mailing lists are definitely raw fodder, but like Usenet they are also
drinking from a fire hose. The candidate I mentioned did a lot of the
computerized analysis to figure out some of the questions she wanted to
know the answer to because there was just so much data. But what I'm
thinking is sort of orthogonal to that, more of the whys and what
motivated people, how we contributed, and the reasons behind it. As an
example, I've known you for years but I don't have any idea how you came
to being an IETF lifer. :) Somebody through no fault of our own may end
up curious what was going behind the scenes of the torrent of mailing
list traffic.
Mike
