[ih] Archiving Internet history

[Jack Haverty]

OK, I probably don't understand the intertwined relationship of ISOC and 
IETF.

Whoever is in charge of the IETF discussion groups/lists, I assume 
they're somehow being archived well, to preserve a historical record.  
My question was whether that same mechanism, whatever it is, could also 
be used to preserve the discussion on this ISOC list.

Jack


On 2/16/23 14:55, John R. Levine wrote:
>> IIRC, there are lots of mailing lists hosted by ISOC, e.g., for 
>> Working Groups, IETF issues, etc.
>
> The IETF's online infrastructure is completely separate from ISOC's.  
> ISOC only hosts a handful of lists, most of which are people 
> pontificating about whatever they imagine Internet Governance means.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>
>    Although the contents of such lists are not yet
>> "history", they will be someday.  One of the purposes of this 
>> internet-history list is to capture the fleeting memories of the 
>> people who were there in earlier times, and remember things that were 
>> unfortunately never archived, e.g., the discussions and debate on 
>> various early mailing lists, which held much that was never in any RFC.
>>
>> I thought ISOC would attempt to preserve all of its current work and 
>> discussions for history' sake?