Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

[SM <[e-mail]>]

Hi John,
At 12:59 05-09-2012, John C Klensin wrote:
>Of course, there is a case to be made that, if we had a more
>sophisticated posting system that enforced the few rules we
>already have, it would not have been accepted and posted in the
>first place.  Individual drafts are supposed to be title
>draft-OneOfTheAuthorNames-foo-bar-NN.  This one didn't meet that

Yes.

>That said, the author in this particular case could presumably
>have posted draft-vesely-spam-reporting-using-imap-kleansed-00
>and then persuaded the Secretariat that it replaced
>draft-ordogh-spam-reporting-using-imap-kleansed-00, thereby
>causing the latter to be removed from the _active_ I-D
>repository and moved off to the historical I-D archive.

Yes.

Mistakes can happen.  The expiration provides, to some degree, the 
ability to forget.

Regards,
-sm