Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[Rob Lanphier]

At 03:31 PM 9/20/00 -0700, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:

> > There needs to be an I-D archive.
>
>1.  Get together with everyone else who agrees with you and buy a machine
>and a net connection.
>
>2.  Write a script to get all new I-Ds (easy to do via automated
>processing of ietf-announce).
>
>3.  Make them freely available to all.
>
>4.  Post a note about the archive once a month to the IETF list.

Most of this has already been done.  See:
http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/

However:
A.  I'm not sure if it was ever announced to this list
B.  It's not entirely clear that expired drafts don't expire at this 
location, until you hunt around a bit.
C.  There's no explicit permanence to this location.  It could come and go, 
though there's no immediate indication that this is the case.

It would be useful to have a semi-blessed location that one could be 
confident will be there five years from now, for all of the reasons in the 
"Cool URIs Don't Change" essay 
(http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI).  Perhaps this is just a matter of 
the Roxen folks committing to keeping this as a permanent resource, and/or 
perhaps registering an appropriate domain such that it can be permanent.

Rob