On 1/28/16, 05:31, "ietf on behalf of Dave Crocker" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >That's good, but not sufficient. That series is a tiny fraction of the >material that should be preserved according to museum-quality standards. Museum quality is a pretty high bar. I would prefer that the IETF preserve materials to the extent we need to do our work, and let historians and curators decide what (if anything) is worth preserving at higher quality and reliability. I recognize difference of opinion on the matter. > >The IETF community produces very large quantities of other material, >including Internet Drafts, mailing list messages, and web pages. It seems to me that I-Ds are an interesting case. They are a series of documents whose stated purpose is to be ephemeral in order to promote exchange of half-formed ideas. Preserving them for the ages seems to undermine that intent. I understand that ship may have sailed, though, given the number of places one can find archived I-Ds on the ‘net. -- Ted Faber <theodore.v.faber@xxxxxxxx> Engineering Specialist Computer Systems Research Department 310-336-7373