[ih] Simple question

[Joe Touch]

"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote:
> 
> Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan wrote:
> 
> > At this point, I can only point you to the original docs that are online,
> > courtesy of ACM SIGCOMM's funding, but check back with me in a few months
> > for some of my group's collection and writings.  I will announce it to
> > the list when appropriate.
> >
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dragon/nph/digital_archive.html
> 
> Suggestions (sorry, this is post is not directly related to
> history):
> 
> - make sure that that URL last... forever... there are
>   already too many dead URLs floating around.
> - perhaps ISOC or PCEN would like to host that archive on a
>   permanent base?

Hosting the archive at PCEN is feasible (if desired), 
but I'm not clear on why it would necessarily be more persistent 
there than at UTexas (UT's been around longer than PCEN :-)

All URLs are unfortunately not persistent. The only way I know
around this is to archive a CDROM of the data with a librarian,
hopefully one who, in 20 years, will copy to whatever media replaces
CDROMs (anyone have an 8" floppy? or 5.25"?)

Joe