Hi. I also quite liked the watersprings interface and was saddened by its demise. However, Henrik's draft searching scheme does most of what I need and the interface at tools.ietf.org/html/draft... gives you the access to all the versions and output renderings. The only thing lacking is the ability to have a nicely formatted and resonably compact list of all the drafts ever made starting with a given letter. Useful for idle browsing and finding drafts you can't quite remember the title or authors of. Warren: If you have time and enthusiasm I'd be inclined to see if a couple of extra screens could be added to what we have already rather than reimplementating a separate Watersprings clone since the back end is already in place. I don't think that putting back what Watersprings had exactly would give you any more ancient history. I seem to remember that it didn't have drafts earlier than about 1995, but it's a long time since I checked that ;-). I did when I was looking for Nimrod routing history and other stuff for the routing history RFC. The current tool has a smattering of moderately ancient history already: Some of the suggestions for IPng are there: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-ip-encaps-01 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deering-sip-00 (The REAL SIP!) but I suspect the list is incomplete - however unless the file archives are lurking in some server, I don't know how we would know (did ietf-announce exist in those days and would it help?) Regards, Elwyn On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 19:15 +0100, Adrian Farrel wrote: > Interesting, Warren. > > I used to use waterspring and still have an annoying bookmark that autocompletes when I start to type www.wat... > > At the time that waterspring was set up we didn't archive old versions of I-Ds and once an I-D had expired it disappeared (related issues, but separately annoying). That is no longer the case, so the (UI aside) the main residual value would be retrieving the archive of old I-Ds and I am not so sure how useful that is, but archivists and IPR lawyers might comment). > > Adrian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Kumari > > Sent: 02 July 2014 19:09 > > To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Disgust > > Subject: Reviving watersprings.org. > > > > Hi there all, > > > > A number of years ago there was a site called watersprings.org which > > archived Internet Drafts and RFCs and provided some interesting > > linking between them. > > I never used it, but apparently a number of folk really liked the > > interface / etc. > > > > The site was hosted in Japan and the creator shut it down to conserve > > power after the 2011 tsunami. I provided him a VM (on a machine that > > nLayer / Richard Steenbergen hosts for me), and we started migrating > > over to it. Unfortunately, he no longer has the time / resources to > > run the site, and we never finished the migration / the scripts > > haven't run since then. > > > > Anyway, I've offered to take over maintaining the VM, try figure out > > how it all works, upgrade it, finish the migration, etc. > > Before spending the time on this though, I figured I should check if > > folk still want it / think that it will be a useful resource. The time > > investment will be fairly significnat, but happy to do it if folk will > > use it... >