- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:07:34 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On 12 Feb 2009, at 17:57, Julian Reschke wrote: > I think what you're missing is that this is not out of ignorance, > but on purpose: > > "Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six > months 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”." It's worthwhile noticing that tools.ietf.org is keeping around expired I-Ds these days at what seem to be persistent URIs. I don't know whether there have been any policy statements on that persistence, though. http://tools.ietf.org/html/ -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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