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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 07 September 2012 06:34 UTC

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> The IESG's initial thought on this matter was that the bar for
> removing things from the archive ought to be set as high as we could
> get it so as to avoid all sorts of silly requests and DoS attacks
> (and, at least in my mind, so that the legal questions were near nil:
> unless an appropriate court forced us to, our policy was "leave it in
> there").

please stick to it.  we have enough complexity creation already.  aside
from at&t and verizon illegally giving all our packets to the nsa, the
high bar is the best and simplest.

randy