Re: Memos and Internet-Drafts

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

David,

Black_David@emc.com wrote:
> 
> > It has been dicussed extensively.   There is even a memo describing it on
> > the document area of the Mail Archive.
> 
> I'm sorry to have to ding Julian on this publicly, but this sort
> of use of "memo"s has got to stop.  The only working documents
> of this WG are Internet-Drafts.  The memos that Julian refers to
> that are not Internet-Drafts will vanish off that web site in the near
> future - 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....

-Matt

> An example of the problems that not writing Internet-Drafts
> causes is that since nobody's written that memo up as one,
> it cannot be put on the agenda or discussed in San Diego, period.
> 
> Sorry to (virtually) pound the table, but this is important ...
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
> 
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