[ih] Cluster Addressing and CIDR

[Joe Touch]

David P. Reed wrote:
> At 07:34 AM 1/14/2003 -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> Authors will cease to present partially-complete ideas. There will be 
>> fewer work-in-progress drafts. There will, in summary, be less of this 
>> 'good or bad' research to preserve.
> 
> This claim raises two issues:
> 
> 1. The assertion that "authors will cease..." unless things they write 
> are deleted from institutional memory (or at least not actively 
> preserved) is falsifiable by straightforward experimental evidence.  

There are IDs which authors chose not to publish as RFCs or as tech 
reports elsewhere.

Thus concludes the contradiction of the falsification. By those 
examples, removing all documents that authors never intended for 
archival publication reduces the set of IDs.

> 2. Shouldn't the authors be given the choice to preserve in an archival 
> form their thoughts, along with all other IDs, etc. in such a way that 
> makes it much less work for historians and students of design options to 
> understand old proposals?

They are - Informational RFCs. Note that not all IDs went that route. 
Again, proof by example.

IMO, the authors should continue to be given the choice they already 
have - NOT to publish archivally. They already have the alternate choice 
in spades.

Joe