On 9/10/2012 8:24 AM, David Borman wrote: ...
The original reason for expiring drafts, along with giving them long, complicated names that includes the word "draft", was to keep them from being referenced as if they were standards, based on experience gathered from the short lived IDEA document series.
It was also to encourage authors to post half-baked* ideas without having them persist - either as standards, or in general as something the author needed to continue to defend.
> I don't think
that having an archive of expired drafts weakens that original goal.
It weakens both goals. A key complaint has been that the doc disappears from an IETF site. Neither the length nor the name has been an impediment
Joe
