> Making a 'publish it as an RFC or discard it' claim may be nice > rhetorically, but it's not a very useful answer to the problem > being raised. So, lots of places have facilities for publishing technical reports. If an I-D author believes that something should be kept around but for whatever reason (e.g., lack of concensus) it is not going to be published as an RFC let the author stamp a TR number on it. Of course, these would not be as easy to find as if we just kept old I-Ds, but a short note to the appropriate WG mailing with a URL would keep a reference in the mail arhive, at least. I've used the above system for a document that consensus dictated be winnowed down from its original wonderfulness. :) It's not necessarily a perfect solution, but neither is keeping every I-D ever issued. allman --- http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~mallman/
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