<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">History shows that the best way to preserve documents is to register their copyrights. This insures they will be forever accessible from Pirate Bay. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 23, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Jack Haverty <<a href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org" class="">jack@3kitty.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2/23/19 10:12 AM, John Levine wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Writing, editing, and publishing journal articles is a<br class="">lot of work, and not everyone can afford to do it for free.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Writing, editing, and publishing thousands of RFCs and IENs, and all of<br class="">the material on the archives of forum sites like this, is also a lot of<br class="">work. People either do it for free, or as part of whatever they are<br class="">getting paid to do. Decades of such material are freely available<br class="">online in multiple repositories.<br class=""><br class="">But "<a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a>", and others like it, even RFC<br class="">repositories, likely exist at the whim of their sponsor. The archives<br class="">may just disappear someday when some contract expires. Of course, even<br class="">professional journals may disappear when their finances dictate.<br class=""><br class="">So, ... perhaps the way to publish "a paper" for open access by current<br class="">and future historians is to make it an RFC...? Assuming that is even<br class="">permitted of course. But it seems contrary to the traditional purpose<br class="">of RFCs et al. The format constraints might also be an obstacle.<br class=""><br class="">Or, perhaps put it into Amazon with a very low price, where it will be<br class="">accessible electronically or even on paper by their print-on-demand? <br class="">Amazon seems to have longevity.<br class=""><br class="">/Jack Haverty<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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