Re: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts

[Joel jaeggli <[e-mail]>]

On 10/7/11 15:32 , Frank Ellermann wrote:
> On 7 October 2011 11:36, t.petch wrote:
> 
>> No thousands of .gif to spend ages downloading, no Megabytes of XML
>> that take half an hour to process, no https that locks up the
>> workstation more often than not, no need for a user manual to
>> explain how to do what; just a simple, self-evident interface, as
>> simple as it could be but no simpler (a paragon of engineering
>> design) taking me to exactly what I needed, almost every time (no
>> irtf, but I learnt to live with that).
> 
>> watersprings, you are sorely missed.
> [...]
> 
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/DRAFTNAME works very well
> 
> E.g. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database>
> 
> IMO it is brilliant:  It always lists all versions with relevant
> links (including tracker and various diffs) in *simple* XHTML, no
> thousands of GIFs, no https overhead, a minimal amount of CSS for
> its minimalistic approach to show drafts as near to the TXT form
> as possible (the colour-coded status gimmick is acceptable, e.g.,
> it caused no visible trouble with a HTML 3.2 browser).
> 
> If that is still not yet minimalistic enough for you check out:
> <URL:http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database>
> 
> That's plain text.  You can omit -nn.txt in DRAFTNAME for version
> nn to get the latest plain text version.  Including IRTF drafts.
> 
> Sadly the IETF announce list still does not offer links for this
> repo.  If somebody here has a simple "favlet" or "bookmarklet"
> (= Javascript URL) to transform the announce list datatracker
> locations into tools.ietf.org locations please share it.
> 
> @Joel:  There is only one rel="icon" PNG in the rfcmarkup HTML
> for an I-D, size about 1KB.

right my obervation about 4KB was the sum total retrived (by in this
case firefox) which I did not find painful.

>  Is your 46 KB observation about the
> tools.ietf.org page with the search form?

yes

I note I have zero complaints about the performance envelope of a 46KB
page icons and all.

> If your browser can
> handle OpenSearch description documents like most modern browsers
> I could create an OSDD for you, with input DRAFTNAME as described
> above and output = send corresponding HTTP GET to tools.ietf.org.
> 
> -Frank
>