[ih] ARPANET 50-year anniversary panel session with Vint, Steve Crocker, and others

[Richard Bennett]

History shows that the best way to preserve documents is to register their copyrights. This insures they will be forever accessible from Pirate Bay. 

RB

> On Feb 23, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/23/19 10:12 AM, John Levine wrote:
> 
>> Writing, editing, and publishing journal articles is a
>> lot of work, and not everyone can afford to do it for free.
> 
> Writing, editing, and publishing thousands of RFCs and IENs, and all of
> the material on the archives of forum sites like this, is also a lot of
> work.  People either do it for free, or as part of whatever they are
> getting paid to do.   Decades of such material are freely available
> online in multiple repositories.
> 
> But "internet-history at postel.org", and others like it, even RFC
> repositories, likely exist at the whim of their sponsor.  The archives
> may just disappear someday when some contract expires.  Of course, even
> professional journals may disappear when their finances dictate.
> 
> So, ... perhaps the way to publish "a paper" for open access by current
> and future historians is to make it an RFC...?  Assuming that is even
> permitted of course.  But it seems contrary to the traditional purpose
> of RFCs et al.  The format constraints might also be an obstacle.
> 
> Or, perhaps put it into Amazon with a very low price, where it will be
> accessible electronically or even on paper by their print-on-demand?  
> Amazon seems to have longevity.
> 
> /Jack Haverty
> 
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Richard Bennett
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Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator

Internet Policy Consultant

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