Re: issue with the URLs in the ID boilerplate

[Thomas Heide Clausen <t.clausen at computer.org>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Lars Eggert wrote:

> On 2009-10-26, at 13:29, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > I may still be asleep, but my sense of (IDs = IETF-IDs + Other-IDs)  
> > is that you're saying in the current text that the Internet-Draft  
> > repository contains all IDs, but it really contains IETF-IDs, right?
>
> Er, right.
>
> How about:
>
>  Most Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet  
> Engineering
>  Task Force (IETF).  Note that other groups may also distribute
>  working documents as Internet-Drafts.  The IETF Internet-Drafts
>  repository can be accessed at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/.
>
>  Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months

<nit-pick>

If we assume that IDs = IETF-IDs + Other-IDs, is it then appropriate  
(or even true?) to assume that also "Other-IDs" have a 6 month  
validity time?

Thomas

>  and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
>  time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
>  material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
>
>  This Internet-Draft will expire on <date>.
>
> Lars