RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

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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
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