Re: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts

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Not used to send replies on the IETF ML but clearly for this one: +1 :)

watersprings.org was a real great help for me! Thanks!!!

Best regards.

JMC.

2011/10/10 Elwyn Davies <elwynd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi.
>
> I don't know who was responsible for the Watersprings archive, but I think
> we should send whoever it was a vote of thanks for providing this (free)
> resource during all the years that the IETF was not able or willing to
> provide it.
>
> So THANK YOU!  It was extremely useful.
>
> But I am now quite happy with the IETF draft archive and I have a couple of
> customized Firefox search entries that minimize the amount of typing needed.
>
> Regards,
> Elwyn
>
> On 10/10/2011 10:23, t.petch wrote:
>>
>> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Julian Reschke"<julian.reschke@xxxxxx>
>> To: "t.petch"<daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Frank Ellermann"<hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@xxxxxxxxx>;<ietf@
>> ietf.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 3:07 PM
>>
>>
>>> On 2011-10-08 09:20, t.petch wrote:
>>>
>>> If I'm looking for an internet draft where I only know parts of the name
>>> I
>>> usually use a search engine; that's what they are for.
>>> With the current flavour of the IETF web site, I usually go via charters
>>> -
>>
>> WG -
>>>
>>> I-D list and then find 103 I-Ds in an order I cannot divine, give up and
>>
>> accept
>>>
>>> that I will have to type in
>>> d r a f t - i e t f - w g etc etc. Another waste of my time along with
>>> gif
>>> download, xml processing etc oh, did I mention all the javascripts that
>>> try to
>>> out think me and get in the way?  mutter mutter
>>> ...
>>>
>>> What does XML have to do with all of this?
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> On a thread on this list some time ago, IANA reported progress in
>> converting
>> their web site to XML and at the same time, apologised for how long it now
>> takes
>> to access the Port Registry.  Having accessed it - a good chance to
>> complete The
>> Times crossword! - I found an XML file in excess of 1Mbyte on my
>> workstation.
>> Making a wild leap of imagination, I guessed that the time it took to
>> access the
>> web page was due, at least in part, to these multi-megagbytes of XML, but
>> I
>> could be wrong.
>>
>> Tom Petch
>>>
>>> Best regards, Julian
>>>
>>>
>>>
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