Re: Reviving watersprings.org.

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 17 July 2014 20:25 UTC

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On 7/16/2014 8:08 PM, manning bill wrote:
> just a heads up.   if any of my expired drafts show up that predate IETF copyright, expect a takedown notice.
> i am pretty sure you will get the same type of response from Joe Touch.

+1

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> On 16July2014Wednesday, at 19:30, Dean Willis <dean.willis@softarmor.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 2, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Interesting, Warren.
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>>> I used to use waterspring and still have an annoying bookmark that autocompletes when I start to type www.wat...
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>>> At the time that waterspring was set up we didn't archive old versions of I-Ds and once an I-D had expired it disappeared (related issues, but separately annoying). That is no longer the case, so the (UI aside) the main residual value would be retrieving the archive of old I-Ds and I am not so sure how useful that is, but archivists and IPR lawyers might comment).
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>> Yes, actually I was just about to post a note calling for helping finding some list archives from 1996-2000 that appear to be mostly missing from the IETF site.
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>> The same thing applies to lots of old I-D. These can be critically useful in knocking out nuisance patents. We need them very, very much.
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>> —
>> Dean
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