On 10/7/11 02:36 , t.petch wrote: > I had been waiting a while for a quiet moment on the list to express my regret > at the passing of Watersprings - R.I.P. > > Apart from I-D announcements that made to a WG list I track, then watersprings > was my primary source for all I-D, simply because the web site was so good, > probably as close to perfection as I will ever see. > > No thousands of .gif to spend ages downloading, no Megabytes of XML that take > half an hour to process, no https that locks up the workstation more often than > not, no need for a user manual to explain how to do what; just a simple, > self-evident interface, as simple as it could be but no simpler (a paragon of > engineering design) taking me to exactly what I needed, almost every time (no > irtf, but I learnt to live with that). the tools.ietf.org webpage weighs in at whole 46KB gifs included. the draft I'm currently editing as rendered by it is 4KB. > watersprings, you are sorely missed. > > Tom Petch > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Wing" <dwing@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "'Tony Finch'" <dot@xxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 6:58 PM > Subject: RE: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts > > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >>> Tony Finch >>> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:34 AM >>> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx >>> Subject: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts >>> >>> I have been using the watersprings.org archive of internet drafts >>> http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/ to obtain copies of drafts that >>> are no longer available from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ >>> However the domain watersprings.org has disappeared. Does anyone know >>> what >>> has happened to it and/or if it is likely to come back, or if there are >>> alternative archives elsewhere? >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/DRAFTNAME works very well, and has everything >> near as I can tell. It also does partial matches on DRAFTNAME, so >> you can do http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-*behave* to see everything >> with "behave" in the name. The HTML-ized version shows the history, >> provides clickable diff's, shows if it turned into an RFC, clickable >> Errata, Obsoleted By:, and so on. >> >> -d >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf