IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: Rivest's S-Expressions I-D no longer found

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 21 May 2023 20:52 UTC

Return-Path: <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: ietf@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: ietf@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273BAC15198F for <ietf@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:39 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -0.098
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.098 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_DBL_BLOCKED_OPENDNS=0.001, URIBL_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS=0.001, URI_DOTEDU=1.999] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
Authentication-Results: ietfa.amsl.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([50.223.129.194]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hel3gu8nJoC0 for <ietf@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail-pj1-x102c.google.com (mail-pj1-x102c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::102c]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7615FC151710 for <ietf@ietf.org>; Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by mail-pj1-x102c.google.com with SMTP id 98e67ed59e1d1-2532c2c419dso3697584a91.0 for <ietf@ietf.org>; Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1684702355; x=1687294355; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=R4DEkhC3PhKgfLhDId863NTPSFJCiweHgFtqjeTaNWE=; b=MTdD32q5Ge1ER1DbsbCivUgQdobZj1XYbjw2lLCPNwnmSKA6eUZ818cUE6SRUCvqYy cJCe+Iei7IM2uyaXHPpvu2oK6LvsbxoMwyjFGt0kV10XNL9/V69E8hlWxy+1wuQEBH9n TOTywWfhFgAnRB7GSQ55Yz0nY8Mjg/5CwhJJ1p2/POmGzc/AbxmR/iwkUZzP9GhlrsLK YL7jbq/mmzFPAY2BDQTV3lNsQHkfDTVOXVZQ9va+zgJQA8o7Hh59ur66eyH3d+nQJT4T RXTwPXGmNSurfLeX3QbV2kdkF0a2pd5iXtmvz+HwprWp5Zxxu7TeAU1q952UcyaFTZJz gJUw==
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1684702355; x=1687294355; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=R4DEkhC3PhKgfLhDId863NTPSFJCiweHgFtqjeTaNWE=; b=UKcwajl9NDwm+xBTtzbD1lYsDtciNmek0NoY2+cTGxh9R3vqtBcVsRyd1RLBz4Dq6e csNfHE8fljxtNBjCznFarrmSFdmn96DgNHhWZAQGHzq8fQrME/8YVPDPkz//bNHpg57h nWfN4r49jZB8b7ZacjCc1PULxEktEiUCGnuMIiJQd1SxA4TTxtn4gHxNtXX32gWGXApS HmgYEtIpwVOmSD1dkPGL+RaVdWoudHw3leoSquuvtCEHzulsuJCkcMQNbOmFYZFN3PqR 6fdDHxPTVkxxxWUnzVqCf7hCcqDQYjaFCybd0tMttQ6DtTOC4+PJD/NZ4bGVhkYX57si e6rQ==
X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDwYr+6ClzhB2F46NP4SC/+/bOytUcQ30+VDdr1wOBRbx4/jNBQ1 byi45ayrqScsQRip6V1KCw+8fwZiTGYgzA==
X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ6425uNYXYkstZBe6NU3JmCzjoZKbyiQ1K/63qhVBJ7seeRYDtuKgIsaRMPmutLoglnw45heg==
X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:f86:b0:252:c3b7:6689 with SMTP id 6-20020a17090a0f8600b00252c3b76689mr7385153pjz.49.1684702354781; Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from ?IPV6:2406:e003:1184:f001:9991:d1ad:8c20:42bd? ([2406:e003:1184:f001:9991:d1ad:8c20:42bd]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ei3-20020a17090ae54300b002528588560fsm2879996pjb.13.2023.05.21.13.52.33 for <ietf@ietf.org> (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 21 May 2023 13:52:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <5da5a46c-ac33-d5be-5ad6-b992ba6f1341@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 08:52:29 +1200
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0
Subject: Re: Rivest's S-Expressions I-D no longer found
Content-Language: en-US
To: ietf@ietf.org
References: <20230521183456.DC006DDED939@ary.qy>
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230521183456.DC006DDED939@ary.qy>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format="flowed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/-y35wphRZ8UfSbP3iA6XNYxlyVc>
X-BeenThere: ietf@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.39
Precedence: list
List-Id: "IETF-Discussion. This is the most general IETF mailing list, intended for discussion of technical, procedural, operational, and other topics for which no dedicated mailing lists exist." <ietf.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf>, <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ietf/>
List-Post: <mailto:ietf@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf>, <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 20:52:39 -0000

Is there any reason why draft-rivest-sexp-00.txt cannot be reinstated to the datatracker? This has been done in the past with "lost" I-Ds.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 22-May-23 06:34, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org> said:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>> https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt is no longer reachable.  This is a document I use often in my work so I'd like to have a more stable reference, like an Informational RFC.
>>
>> Is there any interest in trying to do that?
> 
> The Internet Archive says it was last seen over a year ago in January 2022.
> 
> I concur with the suggestion to get MIT to resuscitate it, but in the meantime,
> here's a copy that's not going away any time soon:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20220113221331/https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt
> 
> R's,
> John
>

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email