On Oct 3, 2013, at 7:34 AM 10/3/13, Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 03/10/2013 13:02, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) a écrit : >> One draft I'm working on references some standard NIST cryptographic >> documents. (RFCs don't include everything we need.) I need to check >> some details therein. Unfortunately the current US government >> shutdown has taken NIST's website, including those documents, >> offline. And (not considering this possibility) I didn't download >> copies of them. >> >> Any link to where copies of such documents are kept would be useful. >> (Of course I haven't been able to check the copyright on them to >> know if that's legal, so there may be no appropriate site.) >> >> Otherwise, consider the above an observation. >> > > Same here - I have problems accessing documents at NASA about IP network > mobility. > > The error message says: > "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not > available. We sincerely regret this inconvenience. For information about > available government services, visit USA.gov." > > (roland.grc.nasa.gov/ redirects to notice.usa.gov/) > > Whereas I could find the document in Google's cache, I am dubious > about this situation. > > I would have not imagined that documents in a US gov website would > become unavailable - for political reasons? I would imagine engineering > problems like routing system failures, Internet meltdown... OK, so I'm not going to take a stand about the politics involved. Trying to avoid wearing out my delete key, can we agree that the situation is a bummer, there's nothing we can do about it and we have a way to route around the damage. Nothing more to contribute here, please move along... Thanks and this will be my last post in this thread... - Ralph > > Alex >