There's no reason that http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt, which has worked for a very long time and is published in lots of places, should not continue to return a copy of the _current_ I-D abstracts file.Sure, but that does not explain why every reader of every Internet Draft needs to see the URL.
True. I did not mean to imply that the boilerplate should not be updated in some way; only that the already-published links should be made to work again.
-- Jeff