Re: [Tools-implementation] Different topic: pointing to drafts from the datatracker

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

On 2020-09-15 20:15, Robert Sparks wrote:
> You've seen the thread with Carsten, Michael, and others about how the 
> advent of v3 html has put pressure on what URLs for a draft that people 
> might reference (from a paper).
> 
> I think there are many things we might do with the feedback in that 
> thread. One is fairly quick and easy - I think we have places where the 
> datatracker points to www.ietf.org/id/ for drafts. I propose we change 
> all of those to point to www.ietf.org/archive/id instead.

Sounds reasonable, although I think the only places we currently don't
point at /archive/id/ is in the draft announcement emails.  If we change
those, too, then maybe it's time to ask the IESG to simply ditch the
separate active drafts directory altogether.

Having seen how things worked 20 years ago, and how things have evolved,
the active-drafts repository made a lot of sense at a time when there
was no datatracker, no tools site, and the only way to get drafts was to
pull them (via http* or ftp) from the active drafts repository.  But
today, the utility of that in parallel with /archive/id/ is so marginal,
and the extra bother sufficiently large, that I think it could be time to
move to not having separate active drafts and archived drafts directories.


Best regards,

	Henrik