long-term archiving (was: Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: Ietf-and-github -- ...)

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On 1/28/2016 4:24 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
>ps. With respect to archiving, the IETF in fact does not do museum-level long-term protection of its data.  Nor should it.  But it/should/  plug its output into a place that does. Museum-quality archive is an entirely different animal from daily crash protection, which of course the IETF does do.
Heather can talk you about that; we have made some progress in doing just that.


Jari,

Yes, I've heard that Heather is indeed pursuing long-term archival for RFCs.

That's good, but not sufficient. That series is a tiny fraction of the material that should be preserved according to museum-quality standards.

The IETF community produces very large quantities of other material, including Internet Drafts, mailing list messages, and web pages.

All of these also should be preserved. Folk doing research need source materials about processes, not just (successful) results.

d/




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