Re: I-D archives available anywhere?

[vint cerf <vcerf at MCI.NET>]

I'm with Radia - after 30 years in this game the same arguments and problems are
sometimes unearthed either by newbies or by a new problem that is isomorphic to
an old one.

vint

At 05:47 PM 6/18/2001 -0400, Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking wrote:

>        From: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
>
>        
>        > Let's keep our flame wars straight.  This is the scheduled start
>        > of the latest episode of "I-D's Should Not Be Expired."
>        
>        maybe we need a FAC (Frequently Argued Controversies) file for the
>        IETF list.  unlike an FAQ file which answers questions, an FAC file
>        would summarize each side of each argument. that way, we wouldn't
>        need to re-iterate those positions each time the topic came back
>        up - we could simply say "see [url]".
>
>Maybe you're joking, but I think it's an excellent idea. Not just for
>flame-wars that periodically erupt, but for technical specs there should
>be "these were the issues, these were the arguments on each side, this
>is why we decided this". And not just "see the email archives for the
>last 10 years", but having someone carefully extract the content
>and summarize it succinctly. This comes up all the time. "Why do
>we have that parameter there?" "I don't know...someone claimed it
>was needed for something so we better not touch it."
>
>Radia