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[Gendispatch] Re: Archival Dysfunction (was: Re: New Version Notification for draft-bonica-gendispatch-exp-00.txt)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 09 July 2024 20:50 UTC

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Rich,

On 10-Jul-24 02:09, Salz, Rich wrote:
> So we are left with the following options:
> 
> ·Publish non-foundational information in the RFC series (a suboptimal solution)
> 
> ·Discard non-foundational information (a worse solution)
> 
> Other options:
> 
>                  IETF blog post
> 
>                  IESG statement
> 
>                  IETF web page, managed by the staff

Yes, but only IESG Statements seem to be treated as archived material that can be found for ever. Again, that's exactly why the ION experiment was proposed in RFC4693, and exactly why it's ironic that the IESG's explanation of the outcome of that experiment was lost from the IETF web site sometime after April 22, 2023 (which was the last date when archive.org found it).

I think the idea behind RFC4693 was fundamentally sound: if we don't treat this class of material as a formal series with archival properties, there will be information loss.

    Brian

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