[ih] Internet Draft: when and why exactly 6 months?

[Joe Touch]

Ivan.Arias-Rodriguez at nokia.com wrote:
> 
>         Just in case you would like to access almost any old internet draft
> written within the last 10 years or so, go to http://www.watersprings.org,
> it is really an amazing webpage... They have more than 18200 documents all
> together (about 15000 drafts and 3000 RFCs)...

FWIW, that web site is violating the copyright of the document, 
and in some cases the copyright of the author by serving such
documents, notably those that predate RFCs 2026 and 1610 (March 1994).
Beyond 3/1994, they may be violating the copyright of that material 
by the ISOC.

Prior to those dates, there was no explicit transferral of
copyright to the ISOC (in which case they remain with the author).

Joe