Hi,I'm proposing a change to the ID boilerplate in order to save some lines on the first page. The current text says:
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts.Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six monthsand may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on <date>.
The first URL was broken since the IETF web site redesign, but nobody has noticed. That - to me - is a pretty strong indication that nobody has been using it. (It is now fixed.)
The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which are defunct in some way (don't respond, DNS name doesn't resolve, contains stale content, etc.) Again, nobody has been noticing this.
Consequently, the proposal is to shorten the boilerplate text above to the following, saving five lines:
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/.Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six monthsand may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on <date>.
Thoughts? Thanks, Lars
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