On 9/8/12 10:51 AM, Joe Touch wrote:
Nothing about an ID is inherently obsolete or out of date after 6 months except its being publicly available on authorized sites (up until now).
I think this is absolutely incorrect. Internet Drafts are IETF documents, and expiration changes the relationship between the draft and the IETF. I have to say that I think it's terribly unprofessional not to hang onto archival material and frankly it's in the interest of the IETF as an *open* standards organization to keep archival material accessible. When you're working on a problem that's been around forever and still hasn't been solved (like, oh, I dunno - firewall/NAT traversal?), easy access to expired drafts is an enormous help. Would you be more comfortable if there were some sort of visual flag that a draft had expired? Melinda