Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[Keith Moore]

> It seems to me that the question at hand is
> whether or not this gives drafts any additional
> weight in standards-land. 

no, I don't think that's the question.  it's already well established
that standards-track RFCs cannot have normative references to I-Ds.

rather, the questions at hand are whether an official archive of 
internet-drafts would

a) impair their utility, and thereby hurt IETF's ability to function, or

b) violate the rights of I-D authors who allowed IETF to publish 
their I-Ds based on the understanding that IETF would only do
so for a short time

Keith