IETF Administrative Director wrote:
The IAOC is preparing the 2007 budget and would like feedback on whether
or not to continue producing the IETF meeting CDs of the Proceedings.
It has been suggested as a way of employing limited Secretariat labor
more productively that the IAOC discontinue production of the Proceedings
on CDs and, instead, make the files available collectively on the web site
for each meeting in a zip file for downloading.
Is there strong rationale for maintaining production of the CDs?
No.
IMO, free online retrieval of IETF proceedings is sufficient.
Spend the time and money on something more important.
My 2 cents on data format:
If I really wanted to have a CD of the proceedings,
then I would want to retrieve a .iso file from the archive.
(Moving from the Print Era to the Electronic Age is hard...
I just recycled my collection of paper IETF proceedings a year ago.
I bet some of you still have every one!)
Ray Pelletier
IAD
Andy
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