www.watersprings.org is helpful, if you know the draft name.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:46:13PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 14-jan-04, at 17:43, Fred Baker wrote:
>
> >It seems to me that there is a better approach to the above, at least
> >in the context of the above. If the "tombstone" is literally as
> >described, it would be far more space/search/etc efficient for us to
> >have the tombstone consist of an added text line in a file indicating
> >that the named draft expired on a certain date, and keep separate
> >files for the active internet drafts. It seems to me that this makes
> >it simpler to maintain a mirror and to find temporary documents.
>
> >Thoughts?
>
> This is probably orthogonal to mirroring issues, but it sometimes
> drives me mad when I have a draft filename but I can't find the draft
> itself and/or its status. Two things could help in this area:
>
> - for all drafts, make it possible to determine the latest version
> - for inactive drafts, supply some reference to the author(s)
>
> A good and simple way to do this would be to create a file that matches
> the draft filename without the version number (would this be that
> tombstone thingy you guys keep talking about?) and say something like
> "version 34 was submitted 2003-04-05" or "version 00 was deleted
> 1970-01-01" and copy the author's address section of the most recent
> version. Authors can then supply a link to the intended permanent
> resting place of the draft, if any, in this section.
>
> If keeping all those files around is problematic, copying the author's
> address section into the I-D ACTION email message would also help a lot
> as the announcements mailinglist is well-archived.
>
