On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Joe Touch wrote: > > The IETF needs to keep a full archive for legal reasons > > even if it doesn't allow FTP access by the public. Why > > should lawyers with subpoenas get access to the database > > and members of the community can't? > > Let's see all your legal and medical records, if you're in such a mood > for sharing. ;-) There are plenty of things that can be accessed only > with due process, and (IMO) should require such. This looks like a bad analogy. Have your medical or legal records already been published elsewhere in the net in dozens of places? Have you bothered to contact all of them to get the information you don't want to keep on record be removed? Sounds like some might want to rather use web pages to convey some of the ideas than Internet-Drafts. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf