Looks good to me! Best regards, Pasi > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Eggert Lars (Nokia-NRC/Espoo) > Sent: 27 October, 2009 11:29 > To: IETF discussion list > Subject: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate > > 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 > > months > > and 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 > > months > > and 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf