Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[Dave Crocker]

At 07:14 PM 9/20/00 -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>It would be useful to have a semi-blessed location that one could be 
>confident will be there five years from now, for all of the reasons in the 
>"Cool URIs Don't Change" essay 
>(http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI).  Perhaps this is just a matter of 
>the Roxen folks committing to keeping this as a permanent resource, and/or 
>perhaps registering an appropriate domain such that it

that raises the question of likelihood.  how likely is it that Roxen will 
be around 10 or 20 years from now?  how likely is it that an IETF 
Secretariat will be around 10-20 years from now?

If we are going to have an archival facility, it needs to be run by a 
stable group with high probability of staying around.

d/