Randy Bush writes: > so your criteria acctually open and continual availability, and > availability of export. i think these would apply well to ietf or > whatever services as well. Right. As a data point, I haven't been able to access the archived Meetecho streams from past IETF meetings lately, e.g. http://recordings.conf.meetecho.com/Recordings/watch.jsp?recording=IETF84_TSVAREA&chapter=part_3 In fact I cannot open a TCP connection to port 80 on "recordings.conf.meetecho.com" from anywhere (and isup.me agrees). (Dear ietf-action, can you contact the Meetecho folks about this issue? Thanks!) I'm not saying that this is a reason to switch (back) to IETF-operated servers. There are certainly A/V archives (Youtube comes to mind) with as good an availability record as the IETF's own MP3 archives. -- Simon.