I, for one, would like to see the IETF host an public archive of expired I-Ds for technical reasons. Having past works, even those not worthy of RFC publication (on any track), available adds to wealth of knowledge available to future Internet engineering. This will allow future efforts to take full advantage of past efforts. Having them available for IPR reasons, IMO, is secondary (as it addresses a non-technical issue). I suggest that the URIs for an expired I-D contain the word "expired" to limit confusion with active I-Ds, e.g.: http://www.ietf.org/EXPIRED-INTERNET-DRAFT/draft-....txt Kurt
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Keith Moore
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Jeffrey Mogul
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Steven M. Bellovin
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Joe Touch
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Joe Touch
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Tim Salo
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Tim Salo
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Kurt D. Zeilenga
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Steve Conner
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Scott Bradner
- Re: An Internet Draft as reference material Dave Crocker