Re: Working documents repository

[braden at ISI.EDU]

  *> 
  *> Is it possible the IETF will keep a repository
  *> of expired working documents? or is it a non
  *> affordable cost?
  *> 
  *> 

Alessio,

If you start an (official) repository for expired Internet Drafts, they
aren't expired any more (!), and you have created a new archival
document series in parallel to RFCs.  The Internet technical community
has a 15-year old consensus that this would generally be a bad idea.
[Like most other IETF/Internet ideas, this one resulted from actual
experience; at one point there was a separate document series called
the IENs (Internet Experiment Notes) in parallel with RFCs, and the
result was considerable confusion.]

  *> I just note that in order to prevent the loss
  *> of the "Two bits differentiated services architecture"
  *> the authors submitted it as a non std track RFC.
  *> 

This is exactly the right thing to do.  Working documents that contain
useful information should be published as Informational RFCs.  Or, if
their importance lies more in their style than their content, perhaps
you should consider submitting them to CCR or IEEE Networks or ...

Bob Braden


  *> Alessio
  *> 
  *> PS  there was an article about working documents
  *> getting lost on an issue of IEEE Networks, 
  *> and I share the concerns of its author.
  *>