Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

[Joe Touch]

On 9/7/2012 11:37 AM, SM wrote:
At 08:43 07-09-2012, Joe Touch wrote:
IMO, the "expires" indication on an ID indicates the expiration of the
ability of the ISOC to publish the draft.

This raises the question of what "expires" means.

At the least, if IDs are published publicly forever, then "expires" is 
no longer meaningful and the entirety of that notion needs to be 
expunged from the ID process.

Joe