Having gone through this particular debate a few times before, let me just repeat what others have told me when I suggested we keep our documents archived and accessible: - Vendors are "stupid" and will claim compliance with a work-in-progress document instead of a final standard. This is "very bad" - Drafts often change along the way (including being completely discarded as "bad ideas") and we should discard such snapshots in case someone gets the wrong idea from reading one. Needless to say, I don't really buy these arguments. As someone who publishes articles where the only existing reference might be an ID at the time of writing, I believe there are better mechanisms we could use (as we do with RFCs and the "Obsoletes/Obsoleted by" tags). Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Academic Research and Technology Initiatives, Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf