RE: Memos and Internet-Drafts

[Black_David@emc.com]

> > - if it's important enough to save for future reference, it's
> > important enough to write up and submit as an Internet-Draft.
> 
> From RFC2026, section 2.2:
> "An Internet-Draft that is published as an RFC, or that has remained
> unchanged in the Internet-Drafts directory for more than six months
> without being recommended by the IESG for publication as an RFC, is
> simply removed from the Internet-Drafts directory."
> 
> So, internet drafts are not useful for "future reference" since they'll be
> deleted after 6 months....

... and if in 6 months, there is not enough interest in a draft to generate
active work on it, it's time for the draft to vanish because the WG has
clearly moved on.  If a draft is a subject of active work, there are
things that your WG co-chairs and ADs can do to reprieve a draft
from untimely deletion (having been through this with one of my
drafts in the recent past), but fundamentally we expect a draft that's
being worked on to be revised on a regular basis.  Expect the rule
about what can be discussed in meetings to be strictly enforced
in San Diego with respect to the memo Julian cited -- this is a
message from the ADs.

--David

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