Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[RJ Atkinson]

At 12:07 27/09/00, Melinda Shore wrote:

>Archival material is *extremely* important for
>future research.  

The archival material is the RFC --*only*--.

>Just because the document isn't
>for publication and cannot be used normatively
>doesn't mean that it should be obliterated.  

I would not want my old drafty Internet-Drafts
to be kept archivally, just as others have indicated
they don't want theirs kept around.  Drafts are
just that -- drafts -- hence not appropriate
archival material.

Ran
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