On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:29:51PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > also, publishing an I-D might be useful for other reasons - e.g. to > establish prior art in case an idea or invention in the draft is ever > patented by someone else. I have written or co-written a few drafts in the past purely as problem statements or to raise issues. Rather than repeat text in list discussions, it's 'nice' to have a plain text format statement of an #issue or problem to focus discussion. While the draft may become an RFC, it also quite commonly may not if the solution draft briefly cpatures the issue at hand. Sure, the statement could be a web page, but the IETF 'version control' on texts is also quite handy to see how a text evolved over time. tim _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf