----- Original Message ----- From: "Melinda Shore" <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 1:11 AM > > We have the mailing list archives, we've got the document shepherd > writeups, we've got the IESG evaluation record, we've got the IESG > writeups, we've got meeting minutes, we've got jabber session > archives, we've got audio recordings of meetings, and we've got the > document history. And it is not enough. A question arose recently as to why the wording in an RFC was what it was, what it did intend to mean, and while I could look at the different versions of the I-D and identify the nine month period in which the change occurred, from the wording in an earlier RFC to that in the replacement one, nothing else from that time gave any clue as to why, nor could any remember. All we know is who was editing the I-D at the time in question. Most of the resources you mention are not available from the time in question so we cannot judge how well we are currently being served until at some point in the future they are put to the test. Likely, they will be found wanting, as our older records have been. Tom Petch > Melinda > >