Re: [Tools-discuss] Content at notes.ietf.org is not archival

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 15 September 2021 19:22 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:21:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Content at notes.ietf.org is not archival
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Hi Robert,

This is the kind of PSA that is often made and ignored and then people come
to rely on the existing state of affairs, making it hard to change, ISTM
that if you want to actually have it be easy to deprecate the data then you
probably want to make it actively unreliable now.

-Ekr


On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:22 AM Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:

> Be aware that any content at notes.ietf.org is intended to be ephemeral.
>
> We expect the content to remain available as long as we are running the
> service, but there is no guarantee it will be preserved. At some point
> in the future, it may be replaced with another service, and the content
> will not be automatically extracted.
>
> Anything that should be archived needs to be stored at an archival
> service. For instance, minutes should be captured in the datatracker as
> minutes documents. If it isn't obvious where to keep any given content,
> contact a relevant member of the leadership.
>
> Please keep in mind that the content at notes.ietf.org may not be there
> in the future as you choose share URLs to it in other places.
>
> Robert Sparks
> Tools team chair
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