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

[Miles Fidelman]

Not for nothing but the library community has it right:  LOCKSS - i.e., 
lots of copies, in lots of places!

Miles

On 2/23/19 4:26 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> 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 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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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