Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[Simon St.Laurent]

At 10:49 AM 9/21/00 +1100, Robert Elz wrote:
>    Date:        Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:28:15 -0400
>    From:        "Simon St.Laurent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>    Message-ID:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>  | It's part of the development process, but it's not a formal document.
>
>The point is that I-Ds aren't supposed to be formal documents either.
>They're just electronic scribble on scap paper found lying around, and
>generally intended to be discarded.   From time to time, some of that
>looks to be worth keeping - and then it can be copied to a more permanent
>archive, but we are still going to need the scratch pad.

Once the scratch pad is in public view, it should stay in public view.

I think that may be where we differ - I'm happy to scribble in public and
expect other people's public scribbles to remain public.

Simon St.Laurent
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